August Ferdinand Bebel (February 22, 1840 – March 18, 1913) was a German social democrat and one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... SPD redirects here. ...

August Bebel

Bebel was born on February 22, 1840 in Deutz, near Cologne; he founded the Sächsische Volkspartei ("Saxon People's Party") in 1867 together with Wilhelm Liebknecht, and the SDAP (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei, Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany) in 1869, which merged with the ADAV (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, "General German Workers' Association") in 1875 to form the SAPD (Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, "Socialist Workers' Party of Germany"), which renamed itself SPD in 1890. August Bebel This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... August Bebel This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... There are multiple topics for Deutz Deutz, Germany: the town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Deutz AG: a diesel-engine manufacturer in Germany. ... Cologne (German: â–¶ (help· info) [kÅ“ln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is with its one million residents Germanys fourth largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Wilhelm Liebknecht Wilhelm Liebknecht (March 29, 1826 - August 7, 1900) was a German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD and father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht. ... Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij, a Dutch political party that later merged into the Partij van de Arbeid Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei, a German political party that later merged into the Social Democratic Party of Germany Service Discovery Application Profile, a network protocol used in Bluetooth This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... The Social Democratic Workers Party of Germany, in German Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP, was a German left-wing political party founded in 1869 in Eisenach, Germany by, among others, Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The General German Workers Association, in German Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle and existed under this name until 1875, when it combined with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknechts SDAP to form the Socialist Workers Party of Germany, what is now the... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Socialist Workers Party of Germany, in German Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAP / SAPD, has been the name of two political parties in Germany. ... The Socialist Workers Party of Germany, in German Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAP / SAPD, has been the name of two political parties in Germany. ... SPD redirects here. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1872, Bebel was convicted in a political lawsuit, the so-called Leipziger Hochverratsprozess, and sentenced to two years in Festungshaft ("imprisonment in a fortress", a variant of a jail sentence that was not considered dishonouring), which he spent at the famous Königstein Fortress. Later in his life, he acted as chairman of the SPD and member of the Reichstag. Bebel's book, Women and Socialism was translated into English by Daniel DeLeon of the Socialist Labor Party of America as Woman under Socialism. It figured prominently in the Connolly-DeLeon controversy after James Connolly, then a member of the SLP, denounced it as "a lewd book" subversive of traditional values. 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Königstein Fortress, the Saxon Bastille, is a famous historic mountaintop fortress in Saxony in Germany which for centuries was used as a state prison and which is still intact, and a major tourist attraction, today. ... The Reichstag (German for Imperial Diet) was the parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, and of Germany until 1945. ... Daniel De Leon (December 14, 1852 – May 11, 1914) was born in Curaçao. ... The Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) is the oldest socialist political party in the United States and the second oldest socialist party in the world. ... For the Olympic athlete, see James Connolly (athlete) James Connolly James Connolly (June 5, 1868 - May 12, 1916) was an Irish nationalist and socialist leader. ... The Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) is the oldest socialist political party in the United States and the second oldest socialist party in the world. ...

After living in Berlin-Schöneberg for many years, where a commemorative plaque commemorates him at Hauptstraße 97; he died on March 18, 1913 during a visit to a sanatorium in Switzerland and was buried in Zürich. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Location within Switzerland â–¶ (help· info) (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ...

His basic laws of a socialist society are

1. Enlistment of all able-bodied people, irrespective of sex, to work [1]
2. Abolition of Private Ownership of Land [2]
3. Withering Away of the State (utopia) [3]

Quotes

• "The masses demand that something be done…today."
• "Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools."
• "...the Imperial Chancellor can rest assured that German Social Democracy is a sort of preparatory school for militarism", said to Bismarck in 1892.

Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... Militarism expounds that the foundation of a societys security is its military capacity, and claims that the development and maintenance of the military to ensure that capacity is the most important goal for that society. ...

External links

• August Bebel page at Marxists.org
• Works by August Bebel at Project Gutenberg