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| Die Linke: Ten Years OnBalhorn, Lorenhttp://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/die-linke-germany-left-refugees-merkel-socialists/ 
 Publisher:  Jacobin
 Date Written:  23/06/2016
 Year Published:  2016
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Political organizations, particularly those committed to radical change, face their greatest tests in times of crisis. In 1914, German social democracy, the international socialist movements crown jewel, was brought to its knees by its inability to confront the outbreak of World War I. Two decades later, German Communisms ultra-leftism proved similarly impotent in the face of the growing Nazi threat, and Europe's most powerful laboUr movement was decimated within a couple of years.
 
 
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