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This group of left-leaders within the SPD-Independents formed the core of what would become the German Communist Party.
What is the Spartacus League?
Bought off with a portion of imperialist super-profits, this privileged upper section of the working class tends to support the politics of the bourgeoisie.
What is the labor aristocracy?
This individual was the first Social-Democrat to vote against the approval of German war credits in the Reichstag.
Who is Karl Liebknecht?
This international body was formed after WW1 under the premise of preventing future wars. While the US helped to facilitate its founding, the US never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
This German socialist was a contemporary critic of Lasalle, and a leading figure in the first international.
Who is Karl Marx?
While the CC struggled to suppress the anti-war opposition after the outbreak of WW1, this organ of the SPD seized effective control over the Party.
What is the "presidium of the parliamentary fraction?"
This theory, developed first by the austro-Marxists, called for industry to be managed by "industrial councils," including representatives for management, labor, consumers, and the government.
What is "economic democracy?"
This German Social-Democrat was a leading figure in the "revisionist" movement.
Who is Eduard Bernstein?
This short-lived socialist government in Germany received fraternal communications from Lenin and the RCP(B).
What is the Bavarian Soviet Republic?
This individual departed the left wing of the SPD and eventually became a leading centrist figure. In Weimar Germany, he was in charge of the "commission on socialization."
Who is Karl Kautsky?
This group, led by Bebel and distinguished by their opposition to the doctrines of Lasalle, preceded the SPD.
Who are the Eisenachers / Social-Democratic Workers' Party?
This term refers to the theory positing that parliamentary democracy provides the ideal political arena for the proletariat to assume state power by peaceful, electoral means.
What is "pure democracy?"
This founding member of the SPD became a central leading figure in the Party during the era of the Anti-Socialist Laws, and was an early opponent of revisionism in the Party.
Who is August Bebel?
This revolt in early 1919 was suppressed by the SPD-led state with brutal violence.
What is The Spartacist Uprising / The January Uprising?
This slogan describes the conditional aid given to Germany by the Entente in the immediate aftermath of WW1, ensuring that Germany would maintain an anti-Soviet foreign policy.
What is "Bread or Bolshevism?"
Rather than submit to party discipline regarding the "budget question," this group walked out of the SPD's Magdeburg Congress (1910).
Who were the "Southerners?"
This theory, developed by Kautsky, posits that it would be impossible to carry out a proletarian revolution under conditions of declining economic productivity.
What is "the socialism of poverty?"
In 1907, this German Social-Democrat delivered a notorious speech calling for the "Defense of the Fatherland."
Who is Noske?
At this special conference in 1917, socialists from the SPD's Left and Center united on the basis of a common anti-war program to break with the SPD and form a separate party: the "SPD Independents."
What is the Gotha Conference?
This German Social-Democrat enlisted in the German Army at the outbreak of WWI, was killed in an early skirmish against the French, and was considered a martyr by the "social-patriots."
Who is Ludwig Frank?
In spite of holding some accurate criticisms of the early SPD's right wing, this opposition group was marginal and petty-bourgeois (comparable to the Russian Otzovists).
Who were the "Young" German Social-Democrats?
This theory proposes that real wages will always gravitate toward the minimum amount necessary to sustain the livelihoods of workers.
What is Lasalle's "Iron Law of Wages?"
This German Social-Democrat began his career as a Bavarian military officer, and was a consistent proponent of "social-patriotism."
Who is Vollmar?
This law, passed in 1878, formally abolished the German Social-Democratic Party.
What is Bismarck's "Exceptional law?"
This politician was exposed by Rosa Luxemburg for writing a letter that implicitly supported German intervention in Morocco.
Who is Molkenbuhr?