Gunka no Baltzar - Vol. 13 Ch. 80 - Swamped

[MangaDex]

 

[Singulo]

Thank you for the chapter! Its great for someone to pick up this amazing series!

I really do wonder what Liebknecht true motives and intention is. He wants a strong militarized not-Prussia? But he disagrees on military's faction hawkishness and approving of the Basseland president's (liberal) reforms. Add to that he came from a destitute nobility (hotbed for growing hitlerites), yet his father hails from the liberal/progressive party in parliament... He also wanted Basseland to by a symbol of conservative rot, a boogeyman to rally the people to fight against. Is this guy some kinda 1848-er pragmatic radical liberal or something? A Luthen Rael figure? Can't make heads or tails out of this guy.

My guy is out here being on a generational run as an agitator coming straight out of victoria 3.

As always Helmut the girlboss tomboy is peak. Definitely the most fleshed out character in the story. One with the most character development out of them all.

Also on the map it we see 30k~ besseland soldiers (assuming the 20k divisions is referencing the army holed up in the fort. Its unclear) pitted against 30k strong weisen corps. But those 20k in the fort will probably got smashed in the next chapter, making it more even . The 20~ days civil war both factions mustered a total of 50k soldiers, a pretty large decrease in army numbers since then. Im guessing its from the centralization of the army and further reforms?

 

[talas]

He probably wants a reunified pan-German country or something like that.

 

[XimbalaHu3]

Thank you for the chapter! Its great for someone to pick up this amazing series!

I really do wonder what Liebknecht true motives and intention is. He wants a strong militarized not-Prussia? But he disagrees on military's faction hawkishness and approving of the Basseland president's (liberal) reforms. Add to that he came from a destitute nobility (hotbed for growing hitlerites), yet his father hails from the liberal/progressive party in parliament... He also wanted Basseland to by a symbol of conservative rot, a boogeyman to rally the people to fight against. Is this guy some kinda 1848-er pragmatic radical liberal or something? A Luthen Rael figure? Can't make heads or tails out of this guy.

My guy is out here being on a generational run as an agitator coming straight out of victoria 3.

As always Helmut the girlboss tomboy is peak. Definitely the most fleshed out character in the story. One with the most character development out of them all.

Also on the map it we see 30k~ besseland soldiers (assuming the 20k divisions is referencing the army holed up in the fort. Its unclear) pitted against 30k strong weisen corps. But those 20k in the fort will probably got smashed in the next chapter, making it more even . The 20~ days civil war both factions mustered a total of 50k soldiers, a pretty large decrease in army numbers since then. Im guessing its from the centralization of the army and further reforms?

He is likelly an accelerationist, despite being associated with fascism today, in it's inseption between the 1st and 2nd world war there were many of those movements, including democratic ones, the broad idea is that anything that dramatically breaks the status quo will lead to revolution, so it might be that they want to see the european spring that followed after events such as the napoleonic wars and the 1st ww wich saw the collapse of monarchies and the rise of democracies, so creating chaos and war is a means to weken the stabilishment and enrage the people into action, be it for fascist, comunist or democratic movements.

 

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2 3 weeks to flatten the army.

 

[FanofEverything]

My guy is out here being on a generational run as an agitator coming straight out of victoria 3.

Thanks for the new chapter TLs.

Liebknecht's ideal seems to be authoritarian democracy of some form. He's got the hints of the VERY early soviets in him, but seems he can't shake off his noble roots

 

[Singulo]

Liebknecht's ideal seems to be authoritarian democracy of some form. He's got the hints of the VERY early soviets in him, but seems he can't shake off his noble roots

I concur, thats what i'm getting at from the sparse info we do get on his ideals and past too.

His aim seems to be one of uplifting the people materially and intellectually, the polar opposite of a reactionary conservative. Its not too odd for revolutionaries to come from a class that benefits from the status quo. George Washington was a redcoat and Lenin was descended from nobility. If anything, they make up the central core of the revolutionary intelligensia. Proles make for terrible ideological writers after all.

I don't think he's on left or right on the revolutionary scale perse, the liberal and socialist split has yet to happen to break the coalition that is united against the aristocratic landed gentry. I think he's of the same strain ideologically as the revolutionaries of 1848. Which happens pretty near the story timeframe.

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He should be friends with president of Basseland though with how stacked the deck is in his favour lol. (Literally a copy of the anchluss vote lol) Though I do lowkey agree with a period of political tutelage with how backwards basseland is, ala three principles of the people courtesy of sun yat-sen