ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden i think a good bit of dutch leftist-labour history to talk about is a 6-day period known as ‘Troelstra’s mistake‘, 9 – 14 november 1918 ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden Pieter Jelles Troelstra was a high-ranking member of the socialist labour party (SDAP) and proud revolutionary. this is him in 1912. ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden @urbanfriendden i love his hat. i trust him ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden historical context: the first world war caused mass food shortages. maginot line and german u-boat made import very hard, people starved. ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden though the netherlands were neutral in WWI, well, it’s ‘world war’ for a reason. deep rich/poor divide, 500k jobless, spanish flu. bad stuff = ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden ration stamps, an ineffective system that makes amassing capital&resource easy under the guise of equal restrainedshare, let folks go hungry ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden Troelstra demanded, in the wake of the russian revolution, to abolish capitalism&unleash a similar, albeit bloodless coup of the proletariat ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden and there was leftist momentum for this! the gov’t had frozen soldieries for months and the socialist members of the military rose up ruben ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden army base ‘De Harskamp’ ended fairly ruined. Troelstra, an internationalist, wanted … Meer lezen over Ruben Ferdinand🐌 ‏@urbanfriendden – History with Ruben: ‘Troelstra’s mistake’