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The Antisemitic German Social Party, Bochum Program (June 11, 1889)

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14. The merchant class must be protected against unfair competition by means of a revision of bankruptcy law, the restriction of the peddling trade, a ban on discount bazaars and installment transactions, the tightening up of fraud statutes against false advertising, misleading estimates, and the mixing and adulteration of goods. Jewish merchants must not become members of the chambers of commerce.

15. The farming class needs protection by way of a reduction of property taxes, court fees, and stamp taxes for contracts on real estate and changes of title; it needs protection against land speculators (carving up estates) and usurers by means of effective usury laws that specify the maximum admissible interest rate and include an obligation to compensate exploited debtors; and it needs protection, by means of effective stock market legislation, against the fluctuations of grain prices induced by stock-market speculation.

16. Direct purchasing from farmers and businesspeople, eliminating the entire system of middlemen, has to be further developed and extended to all other deliveries of goods to the state.

17. The Antisemitic German Social Party is not so shortsighted as to reject all colonial policy as unsuccessful because of a few setbacks; it believes, however, that the acquisition of healthy territories that afford good living conditions for Germans would be more important than the establishment of trading outposts and plantations.

18: The Antisemitic German Social Party puts high priority on a principled renunciation of the borrowing system used by state financial administrations, so that Germany will be spared the influence of Jewish big capital on governments, which is already emerging in the most detrimental way in other countries. We demand a progressive income- and inheritance tax on the basis of self-assessment, with severe penalties for those who submit false details about their personal property.



Source: Antisemitische Korrespondenz [Antisemitic Correspondence], vol. 4, no. 53 (June 23, 1889).

Original German text reprinted in Felix Salomon, ed., Die deutschen Parteiprogramme [German Party Programs], Issue 2, Im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1871-1918 [In the German Kaiserreich 1871-1918], ed. Wilhelm Mommsen and Günther Franz, 4th ed., Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1932, pp. 14-18.

Translation: Erwin Fink

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