Weimar Republic Political Spectrum and other history lessons

Stephen Kent Gray
Aug 8, 2017 · 4 min read

Parties were categorized from left to right as:

  • Communist
  • Socialist/Social Democratic
  • Catholic (and some Protestant parties too), Christian Democratic
  • Agrarian
  • Liberal (Libertarian in modern English)
  • Conservative
  • Fascist

Communism

Socialism and Social Democracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_of_Germany

Catholicism, Protestantism, and Christian Democracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_People’s_Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_People’s_Party_(Germany)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Party_for_the_German_Middle_Class

Agrarianism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian-National_Peasants_and_Farmers_Party

Liberalism and Libertarianism

Conservatism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Peoples_Party_(Germany)

Fascism, Nazism, and Völkische Movements

Note: Miscellaneous parties which were Protestant were put in the Catholic category due to the Christian Democracy common to them.

The modern Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union and Free Democratic Party of Germany both descend from the Catholic and Liberal parties of the Weimar political spectrum.

The natural enemy of fascism is “the liberal focus on the individual” as the Fascists put it.

The Party of Reason is my preferred party of this part of the spectrum.

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