Ideologies / State Socialist / Ferdinand Lassalle
§ The minds · 1825–1864 · Germany · Socialist organiser
Ferdinand Lassalle
Socialism through the state
The workers' party meets the strong state.
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Governance+64
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The founder of Germany's first workers' party, whose belief that a powerful state — not revolution — could deliver socialism made him the father of the 'state socialist' tradition Marx scorned.
social
Reform-minded modernist of his era.
economic
State-aided producer cooperatives and universal suffrage to lift labour.
governance
Held that the existing strong state could be turned to socialist ends.
Notable for
- Founded the ADAV (1863)
- State-aided cooperatives
- Father of German state socialism
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