📅 7 Augustus 1869
The Eisenach congress founded an organized socialist party with strong links to Marx and Engels, while reflecting the work of Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel, and German workers. Its program combined...
📅 22 Mei 1875
The Eisenachers and Lassalleans formed a united workers’ party. Marx criticized the draft program for theoretical concessions and vague language, but the congress reflected a strategic choice by...
📅 29 Juni 1891
Engels criticized the German Social Democratic Party’s draft program for failing to address the political realities of the German state. His comments document continuing theoretical debate after...
📅 1906
Drawing on the Russian Revolution of 1905, Luxemburg presents mass strikes as both political weapons and schools of collective self-government. She challenges the view that union leaders or party...
📅 17 September 1905
Luxemburg presses the German party to learn from Russian events and treat mass strikes as a political means of struggle. Party leaders remain wary of actions that could provoke repression or weaken...
