Socialist proletarian youth

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The Socialist Proletarian Youth (SPJ) was a political youth organization in the early days of the Weimar Republic , which existed from December 1919 to October 1922 and was close to the USPD .

history

The Socialist Proletarian Youth was founded by former members of the Free Socialist Youth (FSJ) at a Reich Conference on December 14-16, 1919 in Halle (Saale) , after a majority at the FSJ Reich Conference in October 1919 had previously decided to exclude all currents who did not want to commit to the KPD .

When the SPJ was founded, delegates from around 170 groups were present, representing a total of around 10,000 members. A basic program was adopted and a formal subordination to the USPD was rejected, which was nevertheless politically close.

After the USPD majority united with the KPD, some of the SPJ members joined the Communist Youth of Germany , which had emerged from the FSJ.

Against the background of the amalgamation of a large part of the rest of the USPD with the SPD , the SPJ merged in October 1922 with the Association of German Workers 'Youth Associations for the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ).

The central organ of the SPJ was the magazine Junge Käufer .

literature

  • Heinrich Lienker: Socialist Proletarian Youth: About the experiment of a self-administered political youth movement . In: Dieter Baacke et al. (Ed.): Youth 1900–1970. Between self-disposal and interpretation . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-8100-0919-9 , pp. 26-44.

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