The KPD’s abortive uprisings doubled as recruiting signals for impatient leftists

Evidence

All this might be condemned as `putschism’, but it could also be seen by impatient young left-wingers as evidence of the party’s willingness to commit itself to revolutionary action. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s background in institutional incentives and signaling — failures as commitment devices for membership recruitment. — connects to: The early KPD adopted putschist tactics that repeatedly ended in defeat — 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; KPD provocations against its own branches backfired into repeated defeats (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The KPD’s failed 1923 insurrection and ban barely damaged its electoral standing #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 82