ABSTRACT
In Russia, the motive force of the worker and peasant had been the desire to end the war and to partition the land. In Germany, the war had already come to an end, and the peasants were not involved in the revolutionary process; in spite of many residual feudal features, they were incomparably better off than those in Russia. In contrast to the amorphous and enormous mass movement of the workers, the General Staff established small select cadres, made up out of the disbanded army divisions, under Imperial officers. Of the two wings of the Social Democratic movement, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) seemed at the moment to comprise the overwhelming majority of German workers, and Luxemburg and Jogiches were therefore in favor of maintaining the Spartakusbund within the USPD. Luxemburg envisioned a chain of strikes that would gain momentum and gradually embrace the large majority of the workers.
