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Documents - Politics II: Parties and Political Mobilization
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21.   National Liberal Party, Founding Program (June 12, 1867)
With the defeat of Austria in 1866 and the establishment of the North German Confederation in early 1867, the dream of a “lesser German” (kleindeutsch) nation-state appeared within reach to....
22.   Program of the German Progressive Party (November 25, 1878)
The Progressive Party had a longer tradition than almost any other party in the Bismarckian....
23.   German Radical Party, Founding Program (March 5, 1884)
The founding of the German Radical Party in 1884 aimed at reuniting the fragmented liberal parties. The Progressive Party merged with the Liberal Union, also known as the “Secessionists” (1880) from....
24.   Saxon People’s Party, Founding Program (August 19, 1866)
The Saxon People’s Party, led by August Bebel (1840-1913) and Wilhelm Liebknecht (1828-1900), championed the interests of the working population, but its initial program stressed democracy, not socialism.....
25.   The Social Democratic Workers’ Party, Eisenach Program (August 8, 1869)
With the founding of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party at Eisenach in 1869, the leaders of the Saxon People’s Party took the decisive step towards establishing a socialist party in all of Germany.....
26.   Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany, Gotha Program (May 1875)
The first workers’ association in Germany, the General German Workers’ Association [Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, or ADAV], was founded in 1863 by ....
27.   Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program (April/May 1875)
When the two wings of the German Social Democratic movement fused at the Gotha Congress in 1875, forming the Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany, Karl Marx (1818-1883) strongly opposed the new program.....
28.   Friedrich Engels on the Socialists’ Gotha Program (October 12, 1875)
At the Gotha party congress in 1875, the Lassallean General German Workers’ Association merged....
29.   The Antisemitic German Social Party, Bochum Program (June 11, 1889)
The Antisemitic German Social Party (1889) was a merger of several antisemitic groups that had spent most of the previous decade fighting among themselves and forming independent leagues, associations,....
30.   Theodor Fritsch to Wilhelm Marr on New Tactics for the Struggle against the Jews (1884-85)
Theodor Fritsch (1852-1933) was a prolific writer of antisemitic tracts – often published under pseudonyms such as Thomas Frey, Tritz Thor, and F. Roderich Stoltheim. He was also an editor of antisemitic....
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