German socialists seized power in 1918 unprepared for governance

Evidence

The socialist parties, which had seen socialism as an outcome of decaying capitalism which could not be `cooked up in advance out of recipes from the soup kitchen of the future’ (as Kautsky put it), found themselves, in 1918, suddenly catapulted into power, without any definite picture of what the socialist economic order was to consist of. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 27

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Broader Connections

• Marxist passivity toward ripening conditions paralyzed German socialists #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 29