Germany Is Now a Socialist Republic

On november ninth 19 18, a group of radical shop stewards occupied the reichstag building in Berlin. They announced that every factory and military regiment within reach should send delegates to elect a council of people's deputies as new government for germany. The next day an assembly of workers and soldiers indeed got together and elected a six man council ofPeople's Deputies. But by now the s p d and the us p d had come to an arrangement, and controlling a majority of delegates at the assembly,. they each got themselves three of the six seats on the council ofpeople's deputies. And so while there is the faintest outlineThe kind of dual power dynamic that defined