The early KPD adopted putschist tactics that repeatedly ended in defeat

Evidence

In March 1921 the KPD used the resistance by the workforces of several factories to a disarmament action carried out by the Prussian Security Police as an opportunity to call for a general strike and the arming of the workers. The party tried to goad the workers into action by carrying out bomb attacks on its own party branches, on the Victory Column in Berlin, and so on, but suffered a serious defeat, just as it had done earlier in the Berlin struggles of January 1919 and would do again later in the fiasco of the `German October’ of 1923. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 46

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The KPD’s abortive uprisings doubled as recruiting signals for impatient leftists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 46; The KPD’s failed 1923 insurrection and ban barely damaged its electoral standing — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 82; Defeated revolutionary movements often self-destruct rather than self-correct (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The KPD’s abortive uprisings doubled as recruiting signals for impatient leftists #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 46
• The KPD’s failed 1923 insurrection and ban barely damaged its electoral standing #qualifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 82
• Defeated revolutionary movements often self-destruct rather than self-correct #expands (0.75)