Election of enterprise councils in all enterprises, which, in coordination with the workers' councils, have the task of ordering the internal affairs of the enterprises, regulating working conditions, controlling production and finally taking over direction of the enterprise"
These are but a few of the demands listed in "What Does the Spartacus League Want?" But on also on November 9, 1918, the new Reich Chancellor and his generals have already begun to respond. They do not need a list of demands from workers--the privileged power already knows what threatens its survival.
The new Reich Chancellor receives a call from General Wilhelm Groener. The military was at the disposal of the new Chancellor. We are here and ready to do battle, to crack heads, arrest, torture, and to imprison, and to kill. We are ready to restore order! And Ebert detested violence! But not the violence of the State! That violence necessary to tame the workers into obedient slaves is at the disposal of the new Reich Chancellor! The imperialist regime, Craig writes, was
determined, above all, that the scenes of violence and civil war that had accompanied the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia should not be repeated in Germany, and in order to prevent that he wanted to end the tumultuous transitional state into which Germany had fallen on 9 November by an act that would legitimize authority and restore the public law (Germany)
Ebert hesitates--but momentarily. [6]
In "peace," when workers are obedient and slavish, willing to be exploited and to remain faithful to the capitalist rule, a capitalist crisis is averted. Law and order effectively control potential "threats" with a little theorizing of its own in which the masses are "educated" to accept atrocities inflicted on others as business as usual. The normalization of murder and its cover up (Trayvon Martin, Rakia Boyd, and Kenneth Chamberlain) are isolated misunderstandings, if not provocations committed by the victims. Jaackboots are ever present--for those who can see and who refuse to remain faithful to the narrative of authority and who are no longer fooled by the "change" only in the person sitting in the seat of "power." Because then, when the masses see the corruption and atrocities at home and the waging wars of drones abroad does the government declare a crisis afoot and demands the speedy and thorough disbursement of the jackboots in every nock and cranny of our social, political, and cultural environment.. And the people wonder then why they had not seen them before!
The government's attempt to restore order (tyranny and fear) is a given . But what do we want?
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