Weimar Republic Political Spectrum and other history lessons
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.
