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August Ferdinand Bebel (
February 22 1840 –
August 13 1913) was a
German social democrat and one of the founders of the
Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Biography
Bebel was born in
Deutz, near
Cologne; he founded the
Sächsische Volkspartei ("Saxon People's Party") in
1867 together with
Wilhelm Liebknecht, and the
SDAP (
Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei,
Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany) in 1869, which merged with the ADAV (
Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, "
General German Workers' Association") in 1875 to form the
SAPD (
Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, "
Socialist Workers' Party of Germany"), which renamed itself
SPD in
1890.
In 1872, Bebel was convicted in a political lawsuit, the so-called
Leipziger Hochverratsprozess, and sentenced to two years in
Festungshaft ("imprisonment in a fortress", a variant of a jail sentence that wasn't considered dishonouring), which he spent at the famous
Königstein Fortress. Later in his life, he acted as chairman of the SPD and member of the
Reichstag. Bebel's book,
Women and Socialism was translated into English by
Daniel DeLeon of the
Socialist Labor Party of America as
Woman under Socialism. It figured prominently in the Connolly-DeLeon controversy after
James Connolly, then a member of the
SLP, denounced it as "a lewd book" subversive of traditional values.
After living in
Berlin-Schöneberg for many years, where a commemorative plaque commemorates him at Hauptstraße 97; he died on
March 18 1913 during a visit to a sanatorium in
Switzerland and was buried in
Zürich.
His basic laws of a socialist society are
- Enlistment of all able-bodied people, irrespective of sex, to work (External Link
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- Abolition of Private Ownership of Land (External Link)
- Withering Away of the State (External Link)
Quotes
"The masses demand that something be done…today."
"Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools."
"...the Imperial Chancellor can rest assured that German Social Democracy is a sort of preparatory school for militarism", said to Bismarck in 1892.
"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."Further Information
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