Communist Workers' Party of Germany

The Communist Workers Party of Germany (; KAPD) was an anti-parliamentarian and council communist party that was active in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. It was founded in April 1920 in Heidelberg as a split from the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).La gauche allemande: Textes du KAPD, de L'AAUD, de L'AAUE et de la KAI (1920-1922), La Vecchia Talpa, Invariance, La Vieille Taupe, 1973, p2 Originally the party remained a "sympathising member of Communist International." In 1922 the KAPD split into two factions, both of whom kept the name but are referred to as the KAPD Essen Faction and the KAPD Berlin Faction.

KAPD Essen Faction was linked to the Communist Workers International.

The Entschiedene Linke decided unanimously to join the KAPD during their congress of 4-6 June 1927.

The party published a paper, Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung.

Activists in the KAPD

• Jan Appel
• Arthur Goldstein
• Herman Gorter
• Franz Jung
• Karl Korsch
• Heinrich Laufenberg (National Bolshevik)
• Paul Mattick (1904–1981)
• Bernard Reichenbach
• Otto Rühle (1874–1943)
• Karl Schröder (1884–1950), (Essen Tendency)
• Ernst Schwarz
• Fritz Wolffheim (National Bolshevik)

See also

Council communism

References

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