The 1919 revolutionary government only granted the Socialization Commission advisory status
Evidence
The fate of the Socialization Commission showed how little the government intended to meet the popular demand for socialization. It was not even prepared to make symbolic concessions in the form of economic reforms which would have done no more than take the wind out of the sails of more radical demands. The Council of People’s Representatives, consisting of SPD (Social Democratic Party) and USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party) members, had given the Commission only advisory status, and had shared out the appointments in it between representatives of various different factions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 27
Categorization
- XREF: Relevant to the chapter’s broader narrative about why Weimar socialization failed; connects to Polanyi and Pollock’s later analyses of state socialism. — connects to: The German bureaucracy sabotaged the 1919 Socialization Commission’s work
- QUESTION: Worth pinning date and exact decree creating the Commission for reference purposes.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The German bureaucracy sabotaged the 1919 Socialization Commission’s work