Clara Zetkin's 1893 Warning on SPD Militarism Revisited

A recent article in der Freitag revisits Clara Zetkin's early recognition of the dangers of militarism and war, particularly her 1893 critique of the SPD's pro-armament stance. Zetkin, a Marxist revolutionary, was among the first to foresee the consequences of the arms race, becoming a sharp critic of her own party. The article highlights that before 1914, the most fundamental opposition to militarism came from revolutionary women such as Rosa Luxemburg, Alexandra Kollontai, Nadeschda Krupskaja, and Zetkin herself. It also mentions Käthe Kollwitz, who became a radical anti-war advocate after her son Peter fell in World War I, and connects her to the Tucholsky song 'Der Graben'. The piece poses the question of what Zetkin would say about Germany's current pro-war advocates.