Marxists-Leninists Germany

Marxist-Leninists Germany (MLD) was a Maoist group that existed from 1976 to 1981 with an organizational focus in Frankfurt and Aachen . The MLD was constituted on 20./21. March 1976 from groups that split off from the Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists (KPD / ML) from around 1971 . The Frankfurt bookseller Heiner Hügel was in charge. The group was dissolved in October 1981. The number of members of the MLD is given in the literature as 250 (including sympathizers). The theoretical organ of the party was The Maoist , which appeared in four issues from 1975 to 1978. The central organ of the group with a circulation of at most 2,000 copies was the magazine Die Neue Welt , which changed its title to The Eighties in 1979 because of a lawsuit by Axel Springer Verlag, which published a periodical with a similar name .

One of the theoretical foundations of the MLD was the three worlds theory of the Chinese Communist Party . The MLD advocated the thesis "For defense of the fatherland and truce " and was particularly noticeable through nationalist slogans. Among other things, she pleaded for the removal of "Moscow-loyal" communists from the public service, campaigned for nuclear power and supported the displaced persons in their demands to return to the former German eastern territories . She also called for votes for the CSU in Bavarian local elections . She supported Franz Josef Strauss as a "bulwark against Russian social fascism ". In the fight against “pro-Soviet forces” in Germany, the MLD group tried to initiate a broad campaign “for the need for and support for the protection of the constitution by the population”.

literature

• Christian Sperber: "One way, one time - all around, that's not difficult" - comments on the development of the MLD , in: Essays for discussion , No. 5/6, March 1980, p. 113
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann : Trotskyists - European Workers' Party - "Maoists" , in: From Politics and Contemporary History B27 / 80 of July 5, 1980, pp. 12–28 (pp. 25–26 MLD )
• Gerd Langguth : Protest movement - development, decline, renaissance. Die Neue Linke since 1968 , Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 2nd ed. 1984 (pp. 122–123 Marxist-Leninists in Germany [!] (MLD) ) ISBN 3-8046-8617-6

Web links

• Information about the Marxist-Leninists Aachen , a predecessor organization of the MLD
• Theoretical organ The Maoist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Hausmann: On the dissolution of the MLD , in: Essays for discussion , No. 17, March 1982, p. 141
2. ↑ F.-W.Schlomann, p. 26; G. Langguth, p. 123
3. ^ Subtitle: Journal for the Application of Marxism-Leninism and Mao-Tsetung-Ideas to Germany . As a self-term, the name was very unusual for a group that followed the CCP's policies.
4. ↑ http://www.diss-duisburg.de/Arbeitsbereich/Archiv/archiv_liste.htm
5. ↑ F.-W.Schlomann, p. 26
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ The Eighties: Journal for National Independence, Democracy and Scientific Socialism appeared from 1979, issue 5 to 1981, issue 4
8. ↑ The Maoist No. 1
9. ↑ Die Neue Welt, Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninists Germany, No. 1, 1977, cover story: "No DKPler as teacher and judge!"
10. ↑ German Maoists welcome the Silesian meeting ´77. Poles, Czechs, Germans: Together against the Russian superpower. MLD extra sheet. May 27, 1977.
11. ↑ http://de.indymedia.org/2002/10/30902.shtml
12. ^ Die Neue Welt, Zentralorgan der Marxisten-Leninisten Deutschland, Nr. 2, 1977, cover story: "For the security of the state. For the rights of the individual citizen."

See also

• K groups