KAPD
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (Communist Workers Party of Germany), a councilist split from the Communist Party in 1920 who would be instrumental in defining the German-Dutch model of left communism.
Extracts from the Leading Principles of the KAI
Extracts from the 1922 'Leading Principles' of the Communist Workers' International.
Introduction
When Rühle envisaged a Fourth International in Moscow and Us (September 1920), the political current of “council communism” had several hundred thousand adherents in Germany, a figure which would decline to 20,000 in 1923, and then would be reduced to a few hundred when Hitler took power.
What does the Communist Workers Union want? - KAUD
1932 statement of the Communist Workers Union of Germany (Kommunistische Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands) on its perspective and purpose.
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World war and revolution have clearly and unambiguously shown the proletariat that in its struggle against the bourgeoisie and capitalism it needs organizations of a kind that must have nocommon interests with the bourgeoisie.
Guidelines of the AAU-E
Guidelines of the General Workers' Union Unitary Organisation, as presented at the Fourth Conference of the General Workers' Union of Germany in June 1920
Introduction1
- 1. These theses comprised one of two projects proposed by the opposition within the AAUD. They were presented by the East Saxony and Hamburg districts at the Fourth Conference of the AAUD (June 1920), were adopted as definitive “guidelines” by the first autonomous conference of the opposition in October, and were published in Die Aktion No. 41/21, 1921.
Extracts from the guidelines of the AAUD
Extracts from the December 1920 Guidelines of the General Workers' Union of Germany
What Is Organization?
To organize means to arrange and give form to something. Parties, trade unions, the army, the Church, the State and the League of Nations are organizations.
The KAPD’s report on the third congress of the Communist International
Report presented at the meeting of the KAPD Central Committee on July 31, 1921, by a KAPD delegate to the Third Congress of the Third International.
Comrades!
Program of the AAUD
Program of the General Workers' Union of Germany, adopted at their third national conference in Leipzig, December 12-14, 1920.
Introduction
The Communist Left and the resolutions of the second congress of the Communist International - Henriette Roland-Holst
Dutch communist Roland-Holst argues against using the objective and subjective conditions of the Russian Revolution as a model for revolution in the Western countries.
The consequences of the decisions reached in Moscow are more complicated for the left communist groups.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Five: Declaration Presented at the Conclusion of the Interventions of the KAPD
Declaration presented at the conclusion of the interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921.
We protest with extreme firmness the attempt to put us in the same sack as the Dittmanns and Serratis by means of some quotations taken out of context.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Four: Discussion of Lenin's Report on the Tactics of the Russian Communist Party
Interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921 in response to Lenin's report on the tactics of the Russian Communist Party
HEMPEL(Jan Appel): It is first necessary that I ask something of comrade Radek who is apparently absent (cries: he is there). I ask comrade Radek to spare us his jokes in identifying us with the Mensheviks, because these jokes when they become repeated often become ridiculous.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Three: Discussion of Trotsky's Report on the World Economic Situation
Interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in response to Trotsky's report on the world economic situation.
SACHS(Alexander Schwab): The expositions that I have to give here do not simply concern comrade Trotsky's discourse here; they concern, all the same, if not more so, the theses that he jointly presented with comrade Varga.
