Karl Radek — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1885–1939 · Russia / Germany · Bolshevik

Karl Radek

The Schlageter line

Communism courting nationalism.

Economic−80
SocialistMarket
Governance+86
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−10
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The Comintern figure whose 1923 'Schlageter speech' courted German nationalists for the communist cause — an early flirtation between Bolshevism and the nationalist right. Documented, not endorsed.

social

Tactical, cosmopolitan revolutionary.

economic

Orthodox Bolshevik collectivism.

governance

A revolutionary one-party state, reaching out to nationalists.

Notable for
  • The 1923 'Schlageter line'
  • Comintern propagandist
  • Perished in Stalin's purges
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