Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany
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Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands | |
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Leader | Gabi Fechtner |
Founded | 1982 |
Headquarters | Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Newspaper | Rote Fahne Magazin |
Youth wing | REBELL |
Membership (2018) | 2,800[1] |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism |
Political position | Far-left |
European affiliation | ICOR Europe |
International affiliation | ICMLPO (defunct) ICOR |
Colours | Red and yellow |
Party flag | |
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The Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany (German: Marxistisch–Leninistische Partei Deutschlands, MLPD) is a communist political party in Germany. It was founded in 1982 by members of the Communist Workers Union of Germany (Kommunistischer Arbeiterbund Deutschlands; KABD) and is one of the minor parties in Germany.
The MLPD advocates for the establishment of a seizure of power through the proletariat, overthrowing current capitalist relations of production and replacing them with a new social order of socialist orientation. It sees this as a transitional stage to the creation of a classless,
It participates in the International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) and the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR). Representatives from the party have attended congresses of other communist parties around the world.[5]
Political profile
Real Socialism
The MLPD calls its political orientation "Echter Sozialismus" ("
Additionally, MLPD describes the current governments
Environmental policy and the vision of the future of real socialism
On the day of the party's meeting in 2012, the decision was taken to make environmental work the second most important line of action. The MLPD believes that the earth is in a 'rapid and extended transition from the environmental crisis to a global environmental disaster', which threatens the very foundations of human life. Therefore, the 'threatening destruction of the unity of man and nature' has become a 'central issue of class struggle'. In order to continue to make maximum profits, systematic environmental destruction through capitalist production has become a general necessity. The party sees a way out of socialism and communism to be built through an international revolution, without which humanity is doomed to collapse. The party calls for a change in the basic guidelines of production, thinking, working and living, as well as scientific activity. The constant growth of production and profit, the orientation of the media, education, public opinion towards the profit economy and the systematic rejection of the "unity of nature and man" and mass consumption and consumption of resources "without regard to losses" must be overcome. This "total social paradigm shift" is immediately necessary to "save the unity of man and nature," but a radical change in the way production and consumption, thinking and the work process first demand a change in power relations. By abolishing the relationship between goods, the future dictatorship of the proletariat could focus on satisfying human needs in harmony with nature. A constant "class struggle for change in the way of thinking in socialist society" is a basic prerequisite.[11]
History
The MLPD promotes Marxism–Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. Only part of the MLPD's membership originates from the 1960s students' movement. Willi Dickhut, the party's founder, had been expelled from the Communist Party of Germany in 1966 for criticizing the change of social conditions in the Soviet Union. His book on the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union was published in 1971 and is a fundamental part of the MLPD's ideology. The MLPD describes the political and economic changes in most of the Eastern European countries after the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as treason to socialism. From 1976, when the economic changes provided by Deng Xiaoping were taking place, the MLPD's predecessor organizations criticized those changes as China's restoration of capitalism.[12]
In the 1998 federal elections, the party gained only 0.01 percent of the votes. In 2002, the MLPD did not participate in the federal elections and called on people to boycott. The MLPD participated in the
Still, some trade unions in Germany have a policy of expelling members of the MLPD. An example of this is when the former chairman of the party, Stefan Engel, was forced to leave the IG Metall and became a member of Ver.di, which does not take a stance against the MLPD.
For the
Although the party has seen little success in national or state elections, the party has managed to gain a number of local councils seats. However these party are contested under a different local label and not with an explicit communist program. However these parties are all members of the MLPD-led electoral coalition Internationalist Alliance.[15]
Election results
Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
Year | First Vote | Second Vote | % of Second Vote |
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1987 | 596 | 13,422 | 0.0% |
1994 | 4,932 | 10,038 | 0.0% |
1998 | 7,208 | 4,731 | 0.0% |
2005 | 16,480 | 45,238 | 0.1% |
2009 | 17,512 | 29,261 | 0.1% |
2013 | 12,904 | 24,219 | 0.1% |
2017 | 35,835 | 29,928 | 0.1% |
2021 | 22,754 | 17,994 | 0.0% |
European Parliament
Year | Votes | % |
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1989 | 10,134 | 0.0% |
2014 | 18,198 | 0.1% |
2019 | 18,340 | 0.05% |
Local Elections of Alliances with MLPD Participation
City | Election Year | Seats | % | Label |
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Albstadt | 2019 | 1 / 32
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3,4% | zukunftsorientiert unabhängig gemeinsam (ZUG) |
Bergkamen | 2020 | 3 / 44
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5,9% | Bergauf Bergkamen |
Eisenach | 2019 | 1 / 36
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2,2% | Eisenacher Aufbruch |
Esslingen am Neckar | 2019 | 2 / 40
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3,9% | Fortschrittlich – Überparteilich – Rege (FÜR) |
Gelsenkirchen | 2020 | 1 / 66
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1,2 % | Alternativ – Unabhängig – Fortschrittlich (AUF) |
Neukirchen-Vluyn | 2020 | 2 / 38
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5,3 % | Neukirchen-Vluyn AUF geht's |
Well-known former members of the MLPD
- Robert Kurz German Marxist theorist[16]
- Berthold Huber German unionist[17]
References
- Bundesministerium des Innern. p. 150.
- ^ "Klassiker Des Marxismus-Leninismus: Josef Stalin" [Marxism-Leninism Classics: Joseph Stalin] (in German). Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- ^ "Mao Tsetung" (in German). Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- ^ "Socialist Equality Party receives over 15,000 votes in German elections". World Socialist Web Site. 21 September 2005. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ^ "Indian communists confidently chart way forward". Green Left. 12 November 1997. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ISBN 978-3-88021-274-9.
- ^ "Trotzkismus: Kleinbürgerlicher Karrierismus in Ideologie und Politik - Über Leo Trotzki und den Trotzkismus" [Trotskyism: Petty-bourgeois careerism in ideology and politics - On Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism]. MLPD-website (in German). 9 October 2011.
- ^ "20. party conference of the DKP" (in German).
- ^ "Linkspartei" [The Left] (in German). Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ "Wikipedia – Vandalismus oder moderner Antikommunismus?" [Wikipedia - Vandalism or Modern Anti-Communism?] (in German). 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ^ "Was ist mit Paradigmenwechsel gemeint?" [What is meant by paradigm shift?]. MLPD-website (in German).
- ^ "China's Leadership Is Drifting in the Right Deviationist Wind!". MLPD-website. Archived from the original on 23 August 2021.
- ^ "wahlgrafik". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 6 October 2006.
- ^ "Manifest – ENG – InterBündnis" (in German). Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "Trägerorganisationen – InterBündnis" (in German). Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-3-88021-151-3.
- ^ "At Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, Maoists provide key support for union leadership". World Socialist Web Site. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2024.