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I didn't say that populism was apathetic. What I said is liberalism causes the apathy which populism rises out of in response.
I mean that's just conservatives in a liberal democracy.
I just think you're underestimating the size of the US population. Blm was the largest sustained protest, counting all those who participated in protest over 2 years was estimated between 15 and 26 million. So somewhere between 5-8% of the total population, and those included large amounts of people who are not normally politically active.
Again..... I'm not claiming there isn't anyone participating in revolutionary activity, just that they are an outlier compared to the vast majority.
Yes.... These outliers could operate because the vast majority of the public were apathetic about their own government.
I was specifying the leftist clashing with fascist in the streets. Berlin was the cultural hub of most leftist movements.
Parties hadn't developed yet in 1918..... It wasn't a democracy yet. The general strikes in 1918 were mostly against the war and led to the fall of the German empire. Of course there weren't right leaning parties, the right at that time would have been working for the kaiser.
Where do you get this stuff?
There were socialist anti empirical parties and conservative pro imperial parties, but the conservative parties that would function and form into conservative democratic parties and into fascist parties had not yet developed.
You asked how many of the strikes were coordinated by the right in 1918, which wouldn't make any sense as the right at that time were pro empire, which wouldn't be striking to end the war or the empire.