I believe even Nietzsche – who of course wasn’t a communist or a leftist in any sense – lamented the influence of Prussia over the rest of Germany, because it was dragging down German culture. So everybody noticed in one way or another.
One thing I find interesting is that, if the German social democrats hadn’t betrayed the revolution that occurred at the end of World War I, Germany could have been the first fully-industrialized nation with a socialist government. European history in the twentieth century could have been very different.
I believe even Nietzsche – who of course wasn’t a communist or a leftist in any sense – lamented the influence of Prussia over the rest of Germany, because it was dragging down German culture. So everybody noticed in one way or another.
One thing I find interesting is that, if the German social democrats hadn’t betrayed the revolution that occurred at the end of World War I, Germany could have been the first fully-industrialized nation with a socialist government. European history in the twentieth century could have been very different.
Yeah i remember reading about and thinking “this was a history turning point”. Unified socialist Germany would be best thing to ever happen to Europe.