caa a22 4500 388016477 CHVBK 20180307124912.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008938900017064 doi S0008938900017064 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008938900017064 Harsch Donna Carnegie Mellon University Codes of Comradeship: Class, Leadership, and Tradition in Munich Social Democracy [Elektronische Daten] [Donna Harsch] In July 1923, the Munich chapter of the Social Democratic Security Troop (Sicherheitsabteilung, hereafter Socialist SA) staged a Festspiel in a suburban woods. The skit's sylvan setting belied its combative leitmotif, echo of a wider German environment racked by occupation of the Ruhr, hyperinflation, unemployment, and threatening ultraright organizations. The drama aimed to convince its Social Democratic audience to join or support the Security Troop. In the opening scene, a "leader of the SPD” lamented proletarian disunity. As he resolved to quit politics, the "goddess of freedom” materialized and urged him to keep up the fight. To demonstrate that the masses were on the move against reaction, she pointed to a sky blanketed with flags born by members of the Security Troop.1 Four male mortals stepped forward: a former Independent Socialist, a Young Socialist, a Communist, and a "lumpenproletarian.” The Socialist exhorted the Communist to join the SPD but, instead, he lambasted its bureaucratic bosses and called for a council republic. Suddenly, the lumpen's passivity aroused the group's distrust. Unmasking him as a Nazi, they chased him offstage. As the Social Democrats went off to a meeting, the wife of the SPD leader told of her sacrifices for a husband and son who devoted themselves to the party. Yet she proclaimed her willingness to suffer "for the sake of proletarian freedom.” The men returned, disgusted that Nazis had busted up their conclave. Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1998 Central European History Cambridge University Press 31/4(1998-12), 385-412 0008-9389 31:4<385 1998 31 CCC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938900017064 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938900017064 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harsch Donna Carnegie Mellon University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Central European History Cambridge University Press 31/4(1998-12), 385-412 0008-9389 31:4<385 1998 31 CCC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge