page_title: Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany
section_title: Der Volksstaat
hierarchical_section_title: Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany / Platform and organization / Der Volksstaat
caption_attribution_description: Information: 100. Jahrestag des Zusammenschlusses der SDAP und des ADAVs zur SAPD, 100. Jahrestag der Veröffentlichung der Programmkritik durch Karl Marx: Tagungsstätte des Vereinigungskongresses „Tivoli“, Gotha; Titelseite des Protokolls Ausgabepreis: 20 Pfennig First Day of Issue / Erstausgabetag: 21. Mai 1975 Auflage: 3.000.000 Entwurf: Joachim Rieß Druckverfahren: Rastertiefdruck Michel-Katalog-Nr: Ländercode-MiNr: 2051
context_page_description: The Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany was a Marxist socialist political party in the North German Confederation during the period of unification.
  Founded in Eisenach in 1869, the SDAP endured through the early years of the German Empire. Often termed the Eisenachers, the SDAP was one of the first political organizations established among the nascent German labor unions of the 19th century. It officially existed under the name SDAP for only six years, but through name changes and political partnerships its lineage can be traced to the present-day Social Democratic Party of Germany.
context_section_description: The party press was a key element of the SDAP's political strategy and the party's newspaper—first called Demokratisches Wochenblatt (Democratic Weekly Paper) and later Der Volksstaat (The People's State)—was edited by Liebknecht himself. The paper was published in Leipzig from 2 October 1869 to 23 September 1876. The party did not yet have its own printers, but Liebknecht was ambitious in his efforts to promote its publications on a wide scale as educational tools for workers. Although most issues of Der Volksstaat were largely composed of incendiary writing about the German political situation, Liebknecht attempted as much as possible to include essays on political theory, transcripts of academic lectures, and even some popular fiction.
caption: The Congress at Gotha centennial commemorative postage stamp, East Germany, 1975
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