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==Sturmabteilung and society's unfortunate== | ==Sturmabteilung and society's unfortunate== | ||
The future Sturmabteilung gained more members by organizing pub fighters and ex-soldiers who protected the SA from protests from Social Democrats and Communists. In the late 1920s, Germany was suffering an economic crisis, and the SA recruited primarily form the unemployed or what Marx would call the [[lumpenproletariat]] of Germany. Left-wingers and socialists allege the SA gained from a propensity for the unemployed to be bribed from those who are hostile to working people and left-wing politics in general. | The future Sturmabteilung gained more members by organizing pub fighters and ex-soldiers who protected the SA from protests from Social Democrats and Communists. In the late 1920s, Germany was suffering an economic crisis, and the SA recruited primarily form the unemployed or what Marx would call the [[lumpenproletariat]] of Germany. Left-wingers and socialists allege the SA gained from a propensity for the unemployed to be bribed from those who are hostile to working people and left-wing politics in general. | ||
==Sturmabteilung and incles== | |||
Around the time of the "Unite the Right" rally in the USA in 2017, and the emergence of the proudboys in 2017, some left-wing commentators noted that they thought they drew resemblence to the old German Sturmabteilung. | |||