Word: bebel
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Founded in 1869 by a Prussian (August Bebel) and a Hessian pacifist (Wilhelm Liebknecht), the SPD is still doctrinally Marxist, making much ado about dialectics, red flags and the greeting "comrade." The Socialists say they are pro-Western, but they oppose German membership in the West European Union; they are stoutly antiCommunist, yet they line up on Moscow's side in its fight against the Paris accords. At a time when West Germany, and most, though not all, of its workers are enjoying unprecedented prosperity, the SPD still tends to couch its cries for social justice in obsolete Marxist...