K-Gruppen
K-Gruppen (Kommunistische Gruppen, "Communist Groups") is a term referring to various Marxist (often Maoist) organizations that sprang up in West Germany at the end of the 1960s, following the collapse of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (SDS).[1] They included the Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists (KPD/ML), the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Aufbauorganisation) (KPD-AO), the Communist League (KB) and the Communist League of West Germany (KBW).[2] In 1971 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution estimated that Germany had around twenty active Maoist groups, with 800 members between them.[2] A few of these groups went on to join the Green Party (now Alliance 90/The Greens) in the late 1970s, while others eventually formed the Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD).[3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Slobodian, Quinn (21 March 2012). Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany. Duke University Press. doi:10.1515/9780822395041-010. ISBN 9780822395041. S2CID 243154919.
- ^ a b West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978. Cambridge University Press. 10 October 2013. ISBN 9781107022553.
- ^ Protest Song in East and West Germany Since the 1960s. Camden House. 2007. ISBN 9781571132819.
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[edit]The historical development of West Germany’s new left from a politico-theoretical perspective with particular emphasis on the Marxistische Gruppe and Maoist K-Gruppen Phd thesis by Matthias Dapprich