Workers government
A workers 'government (also: workers' and peasants 'government ) describes the highest institution of a state, which is supported in the respective states by a single or a coalition of workers' parties . The workers' governments of the SPD and KPD at the time of the Weimar Republic in Thuringia and Saxony in 1923 are a historical example in Germany . It is not identical to the dictatorship of the proletariat , but can serve as a theoretical starting point for achieving this.
Tasks and requirements
In addition to the administrative tasks of a government, the Soviet politician Zinoviev , the father of the social-fascism thesis , saw the tasks of a workers' government in:
- Arming the proletariat , etc. a. through the creation of their own armed units ( proletarian hundreds )
- Disarm the bourgeois and counter-revolutionary organizations
- Introduction of production control
- Redistributing the brunt of taxes to the wealthy sections of the population
- Breaking the resistance of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie
In Thuringia and Saxony, however, the SPD saw the proletarian hundreds as an opportunity to defend the republic against the reactionary forces from Bavaria , which were to strike in November 1923 under Hitler .
Zinoviev saw the prerequisites for Communist participants to join a workers' government as follows:
- Participation in a workers' government only with the consent of the Comintern
- strict control of the communist government members by the communist party
- Communist government members are " in close contact with the revolutionary organizations of the masses "
- Preservation of the independence of the CP and the complete independence of their agitation
Shortly after the Ruhr occupation by French troops, the 8th party congress of the KPD from January 28 to February 1, 1923 in Leipzig and thus shortly after the theses on the workers 'government of Zinoviev adopted at the 4th World Congress of the Comintern, adopted the guiding principles for a united front and workers' government . According to this, a workers' government is " neither the dictatorship of the proletariat nor a peaceful, parliamentary ascent to it ", but rather
“ An attempt by the working class within the framework and for the time being with the means of bourgeois democracy, supported by proletarian organs and proletarian mass movements, to pursue workers' policy, while the proletarian dictatorship consciously goes beyond the framework of democracy do not weaken the dictatorship of the proletariat, for the workers' government, like any position of the proletariat within the framework of the bourgeois democratic state, is only a base, a stage of the proletariat in its struggle for political monarchy. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schönhoven, Klaus: Reformism and radicalism. Split labor movement in the Weimar welfare state , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, 1989, p. 98f.
- ↑ Federal Archives : The Second Cabinet of the Grand Coalition and its failure due to the conflicts between the Reich and Bavaria and Saxony , footnote 119.
swell
Zinoviev, Grigori: Theses on the tactics of the Comintern , December 1922, on: Marxism Online.