The German Social Democrats and the First International
1864–1872

An analysis of the International and its influence on the problems of organisation and personalities facing the German Labour movement.

Roger Morgan (Author)

9780521088442, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

300 pages
22.3 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

In his book Dr Morgan describes the relations between the First International and the first German socialist parties, the General German Workers' Union, founded by Ferdinand Lassalle and led by J. B. von Schweitzer, and the rival organisation of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel, whose programme was partly inspired by Marx. In particular Dr Morgan studies the attempts of the International's leaders, especially the German exiles Marx and Johann Philipp Becker, to spread its influence in Germany. Dr Morgan's study is not simply a history of socialist ideas, but an analysis of one source of these ideas - the International - and its influence on the problems of organisation and personalities facing the German Labour movement. As he shows in his concluding chapter, although the International played a subsidiary role, it did influence the development of German socialist thinking.

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The German Socialist Parties, 1864 to 1872
2. The Lassallean Party and the International, 1864 to 1865
3. Johann Philipp Becker and the International in Germany, 1864 to 1868
4. Wilhelm Liebknecht and the International in Germany, 1864 to 1868
5. The turning point: the German Labour Congresses of 1868 to 1869
6. The Eisenach Party and the International, 1869 to 1872
7. Conclusion: the significance of the International in Germany
Appendix I: the published and unpublished papers of Johann Philipp Becker
Appendix II: Becker's financial receipts from Germany
Appendix III: the correspondence between Marx and Engels
Appendix IV: the Berlin section of the International, 1865 to 1866
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: History [HB]