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SOCIALIST ACTION JULY 1987 15 to give expression to the mass antiwar sentiment and organized an opposition current. The oppositionists were expelled from the SPD on Jan. 16, 1917.
On Easter 1917, 1917, the expelled oppositionists established the Independent Social Democratic Party (USD), which took about 40 percent of the SPD membership. The Spartacus group-which had also begun to attract a mass following—joined the USPD in an effort to win it to a revolutionary perspective.
As Germany's war losses mounted and its military position deteriorated from bad to hopeless, the mood of the German workers turned decisively revolutionary. The battle fronts collapsed, and General Ludendorff, who had been the de facto ruler of Palace, where he declared the foundation of the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. If mass enthusiasm had determined the choice between Liebknecht's socialist republic and Scheidemann's bourgeois republic, Liebknecht's might have won.
Scheidemann and Ebert, however, still had the organized power of the old state apparatus in their hands. Perhaps more important, they were able to woo the centrist USPD leaders into sharing responsibility for the government of the new republic, which gave it more credibility in the eyes of the radicalized workers.
The new SPD/USPD government, the "Council of People's Commissars," reestablished the old, discredited regime Boston Socialist. Action P.O. Box 1046 GMF Boston, MA 02205 (617) 391-7087 Chicago Socialist Actior P.O. Box 267848 Chicago, IL 60626 Cincinnati Socialist Action P.O. Box 37029 Cincinnati, OH 45222 (513) 272-2596 Cloveland Socialist P.O. Box 6151 Cleveland, OH 44101 (216) 429-2167 Detroit Socialist Action P.O. Box 19613 Detroit, MI 48219 Grand Rapids Socialist Action P.O. Box 3505 Grand Rapids, MI 49501 Los Angolos Socialist P.O. Box 60605 Terminal Annex Los Angeles, CA 90060 (213) 250-4608 Minneapolis Socialist P.O. Box 14087 Dinkeytown Station Minneapolis, MN 55414 New York Socialist Action P.O. Box 20209 Ca. Finance 693 Columbus Ave.
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