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Q
16th September 2011, 21:06
Everyone knows about the Critique of the Gotha programme that Marx wrote, condemning the Lassallean programme of unification of the party that later became known as the SPD.

But where to find the actual Gotha programme? I can find one in French (http://www.marxists.org/francais/inter_soc/spd/18750500.htm), but my French sucks and rather not rely on auto-translation software.

Who can help me out?

ComradeOm
16th September 2011, 21:41
Try here (http://www.archive.org/stream/GothaProgramme/726_socWrkrsParty_gothaProgram_231_djvu.txt). As far as I can see this is the final programme adopted in May 1875 and not the draft version that Marx was criticising. Apparently there are minor differences between the two, the (limited) product of Marx's input

Die Neue Zeit
17th September 2011, 00:09
The best part of the Gotha program, though, was "The widest possible expansion of political rights and freedom according to the foregoing demands." This lead-in to the economic demands stressed the supremacy of the pure political or "politico-political" demands over the more economic demands.

BTW, I prefer http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1844 because it has both a web page version and a PDF version. A similar link exists for the Eisenach program (http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=688).