Ideologies / Socialist / August Bebel
§ The minds · 1840–1913 · Germany · Party leader
August Bebel
Built the workers' party
Mass socialism, on the ballot.
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The co-founder of German Social Democracy who built it into the largest socialist party in the world, proving Marxism could march through the ballot box.
social
Progressive — 'Woman and Socialism' championed women's equality.
economic
Marxist common ownership pursued by a mass legal party.
governance
Turned the SPD into Europe's model democratic-socialist machine.
Notable for
- Co-founded the SPD
- 'Woman and Socialism'
- Mass-party socialism
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