Why wasn't Marxism popular in Germany compared to Russia?

Why wasn't Marxism popular in Germany compared to Russia?

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wasn't for the fascists parties?
kinda like the one Hitler was?

or that just were in Italy?

I think it probably had something to do with Imperial Germany's more developed economy and more advanced level of social democracy, compared to that of Russia. Basically, in Germany the workers were better off.

There's a reason why communism took root in the least capitalist, least democratic countries like Russia and China and not industrialized Britain and Germany. The opportunity costs for a literally revolutionary change in economic system is simply too great for the masses in more developed economies.

>Why wasn't Marxism popular in Germany compared to Russia?
Marxist government came to power in Germany before it did in Russia, brainlet.
>SDPD

Define "popular".
Bolesheviks weren't "popular" in Russia, they came to power by force. In the following elections they lost.
Besides, in last elections in Germany, left-wing parties (SPD and KPD) won as much votes as Nazis, but Nazis gained power by political manouvering.

Well that's true, but SPD can't be compared to Bolsheviks in Russia. They followed law to fullest and opposed violent takeover.
It was SPD government that crushed the communist revolution.

>Bolesheviks weren't "popular" in Russia
Well, they were more popular than any other political party, at least past Kornilov coup.

too many christians

>Well that's true, but SPD can't be compared to Bolsheviks in Russia.
What do you mean? Of course they were different. But they were Marxist, and Marxism was, in fact, more popular in Germany than in Russia (where majority of population were completely ignorant and detached from politics to begin with)

Half of europe’s jews came from russia. Marxism was quite popular in germany however, in fact the first soviet state was in bavaria.

Nope. SRs won the election in 1917. Got 40% as opposed to Bolshevik 24%.
Okay, I agree on that.

Actually the SRs were more popular in the country at large
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Constituent_Assembly_election,_1917
But the Bolsheviks were more popular where it counted: in Petrograd and in the army

this, barely any russian knew who the fuck Marx was, they just wanted improvement to their living conditions and saw that hope in Lenin.
Which I believe is something Marx himself speaks of when he mentions material conditions, I'm not familiar with marxism past Vol.1 of capital so maybe someone in the thread has that quote about communism not being a state of affairs to be established or something

>Actually the SRs were more popular in the country at large
Neither election in the Assembly, nor election in the Soviets were democratic or universal. SRs won one and the Bolsheviks won the other.
Majority of pre-civil war Russia's population were detatched from politics (due to lack of press, communication and huge illiteracy) so, again, no party were universally popular.

but it was
Hitler united all socialists and centrists to a single party to fight the radical marxists but they never ceased to exist some migrated to the SA and SS

However you put it, Bolsheviks seized power violently and never enjoyed wide popular support.

>Bolsheviks seized power violently and never enjoyed wide popular support.
A victor in the Civil War that is opposed by all foreign interests cannot, by definition, not enjoy wide popular support.
By the time of October Revolution, the Soviets (controlled by the Bolsheviks) had considerable influence, and Provisional government had none. As the civil war dragged on, the Bolsheviks gained more or less universal support (also considering the fact that Lenin did actually end the war, fixed the economy and implemented a very nice agrarian reform and redistribution of land)

>foreign intervention
Lenin was literally funded by Germans.
>end the war
By surrendering shitload of land.
>fixed the economy
Civil War that Bolsheviks provoked wrecked it in the first place.
>redistribution of land
Totally negated by later implementation of collectivization.
But still, fact remains, Bolsheviks staged a violent coup and just murdered thei opposition. This murdering included stuff like gassing the peasants during Tambov Rebellion.

wat?

are u retarded?

>fixed the economy
My sides. The economy was in free fall until the early 30s.

It was relatively popular. The Social Democrats employed marxists ideals, of course not as far as communism, and so did the movement to unionize.
But I think the main reason why Germany didnt have a communist revolution like Russia did (of course they did try after Wilhelms abdication but thats another story) was Bismarcks politic of "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche" (carrot and stick) where he supressed socialist movements but established a generous social security system that prevented a popular uprising.

Life was kind of OK in Germany.