num_pages: 400
description: Of all the political parties in German history none was more ambivalent than the Social Democratic Party. None was so strangely transformed by a pragmatic dependence upon an extra-parliamentary movement and a need to cooperate with other parties. Beneath the misleading surplice of Marxism the SPD was basically only a lower class reformist party. Its whole practice, far from beng genuinely revolutionary, was an effluence of its profoundly Western cultural outlook. A main purpose of this study is to show that, far from continuing revolution, very realistic, ordinary goals of pacification and recovery after WWI determined Social Democratic tactics...
language: English
title: The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933
titlecomplete: The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)
publisher: Amer Philosophical Society