Where is the proletariat in Babylon Berlin?
<p>I just rewatched the Season 4 of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Babylon-Berlin-Series-4/dp/B0B68RVRPX" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Babylon Berlin</em></a>. Dramatically it’s one of the best seasons yet, because one of the most basic tensions in the narrative arc is resolved; and some of the good guys (and girls) escape their doom … for now.</p>
<p>But I was left asking: <strong>where, in this drama, is the working class?</strong></p>
<p>Nazism’s avowed <em>raison d’etre</em> was to crush the German labour movement and avenge the alleged “stab in the back” delivered by the November 1918 revolution.</p>
<p>A combined total of 13 million working class voters remained loyal and active supporters of either the social-democratic SPD or communist KPD during the last four years of the Weimar Republic. Amid a deep economic crisis it was fear of socialism — or as Wilhelm Reich put it “fear of freedom” — that triggered the fascist radicalisation of middle-class voters.</p>
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