The Social Democratic Party of Germany, known as the SPD, is a social democratic political party and one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. It was founded in 1875 by a merger of smaller socialist parties and grew rapidly after the repressive Anti-Socialist Laws were lifted in 1890, becoming the largest socialist party in Western Europe until the Nazi Party outlawed it in 1933. In 1891 it adopted the Marxist-influenced Erfurt Program, although in practice it was moderate and focused on building working-class organizations.
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The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social democratic political party in Germany.
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The SPD was founded in 1875 from a merger of smaller socialist parties, and grew rapidly after the lifting of Germany's repressive Anti-Socialist Laws in 1890 to become the largest socialist party in Western Europe until 1933 when it was outlawed by the Nazi Party.
Rosa Luxemburg (Wikipedia)
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She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League, which evolved into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Otto Neurath (Wikipedia)
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Neurath then joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1918-19 and ran an office for central economic planning in Munich.
Karl Kautsky (Wikipedia)
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One of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism, he was for decades the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International.
Eduard Bernstein (Wikipedia)
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A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Bernstein is best known for his reformist challenge to Marxism known as evolutionary socialism or revisionism, in which he questioned the revolutionary predictions of Karl Marx and advocated for a gradual, parliamentary path to socialism.
Karl Liebknecht (Wikipedia)
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A leader of the far-left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht was a co-founder of both the Spartacus League and Communist Party of Germany (KPD) along with Rosa Luxemburg.
August Bebel (Wikipedia)
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One of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he was a leader of the German workers' movement for over four decades.
Rudolf Hilferding (Wikipedia)
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Rudolf Hilferding (German: [ˈhɪlfɐdɪŋ]; 10 August 1877-11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, being almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of the twentieth century.
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