User talk:Rivarez

Hi! Thanks for everything you've done on the "Left Party" page. One question: why did you remove the reference to the KPD in the list of predecessor parties? My intention in adding it was not to be POV: but legally, the Left Party is a successor of the KPD as it was reestablished in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany in 1945 and later merged with the east-SPD to form the SED. So there's legal continuity there, and even the post-communist members of the party claim at least a sentimental connection with the Weimar Republic KPD: thus, their participation in the annual "Luxemburg-Liebknecht" demonstrations in Berlin every January, the fact that their national headquarters is the original KPD headquarters (Karl Liebknecht Haus) in Berlin, etc.

I'm not challenging this because I don't think it's an important enough a factoid for the reader, but just curious.

Thanks again for your contributions to the page. --langohio 16:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, it was nominally a merger of equals in 1946, so the SED was as much successor of the KPD as it was successor of the SPD. And both applies only to eastern Germany, as both the KPD and SPD continued to exist separately in western Germany after 1946. Rivarez 17:18, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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You need to settle down and stop edit warring. Tell me what you do not like about infoboxes? -- Netoholic @ 23:33, 20 September 2005 (UTC)