Gotha program
The Gotha party program was agreed at the Association of the Social Democratic Workers 'Party (SDAP) under August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht with the General German Workers' Association ( ADAV ) under its last President Wilhelm Hasenclever at the Gotha Congress from May 22 to May 27, 1875.
The resulting party of the six-day unification congress was the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD), which was renamed the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1890 . The programmatic focus of the SAP was "the free state and the socialist society, the breaking of the iron wage law by abolishing the system of wage labor, the abolition of exploitation in every society, the elimination of all social and political inequality" . One of the main initiators of the party alliance was, alongside Liebknecht and Bebel (both previously members of the Reichstag of the SDAP), Wilhelm Hasenclever (member of the Reichstag and last president of the ADAV).
The Gothaer SAP program was created by Karl Marx , the leading theorist of socialism , from its exile in London violently criticized because it is in its compromise form in Marx's eyes too much the more reformist positions of ADAV adapting (see. Critique of the Gotha Program ). Liebknecht in particular shared Marx's criticism, but for pragmatic reasons, including the priority of a unified German workers' party , he nonetheless supported the program. He later advocated the resumption of Marxist , and thus revolutionary, content in the SAP , especially in the party organ that was newly founded in 1876 , Vorwärts .
Occasionally the constitutional-monarchist final declaration of the Gotha post-parliament of 1849 is referred to as the "Gotha Program".
literature
- Karl Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) . 4th edition, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-320-00278-3 (reprint of the edition, Berlin 1946).
