Gotha Program
| Gotha Program | |
|---|---|
| Ratified | 1875 |
| Location | Gotha |
| Signatories | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Full text | |
 Gotha ProgramatWikisource | |
TheGotha Program(German:der Gothaer Programms), also called theGotha Programme,was theparty platformadopted by the nascentSocial Democratic Party of Germany(SPD) at its initialparty congress,held in the town ofGothain 1875. The program called foruniversal suffrage,freedom of association,limits on theworking day,and for other laws protecting therights and health of workers.[1]The Gotha Program was explicitlysocialist:"The Socialist Labor Party of Germany endeavors by every lawful means to bring about a free state and a socialistic society, to effect the destruction of theiron law of wagesby doing away with the system ofwage labor,to abolish exploitation of every kind, and to extinguish all social and political inequality. "[1]It was superseded by theErfurt Programin 1891.
Karl Marxfamously attacked the platform, which he had read in draft form, in hisCritique of the Gotha Programme.[2]
References
[edit]- ^abHanover Historical Texts Project (ed.)."The Gotha and Erfurt Programs: Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text at the web site of the Hanover Historical Texts Project".Hanover College.Retrieved28 January2013.
- ^Marx, Karl."Critique of the Gotha Program".marxists.org.Retrieved28 January2013.
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