Workers' Party of Germany

This article is about the Querfront party. For the Neo-Nazi organisation (led by Friedhelm Busse), see Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit.
Workers' Party of Germany
Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands
AbbreviationPdAD
LeaderMichael Koth
Founded1995
Dissolved1998
HeadquartersNordhausen[1]
IdeologyJuche
National Bolshevism
Revolutionary nationalism
Strasserism
Querfront

The Workers' Party of Germany (German: Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands, abbr. PdAD) was a minor political party in Germany. It saw its mission in overcoming the left-right political divide via the Querfront strategy.[2][3]

The party modeled itself around the Workers' Party of Korea and its Juche ideology, which it viewed as national communist.[4] According to Michael Koth, founder and leader of the party, it attracted and united members of the DKP, former FDJ, as well as revolutionary nationalists and nationalist socialists.[5] It saw itself as a "Union of national communists and national revolutionaries" in the spirit of the Strasser brothers, Ernst Niekisch, and Anton Ackermann that pursued a "German Socialism".[1]

The PdAD believed that the German Democratic Republic had not failed on the social, but rather the national question; which is why the next socialism on German soil must, according to the party, be a national and German socialism in order to survive.[2] The party thus saw itself inspired by the Juche ideology, which had endured the collapse of communism.

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  2. ^ a b "Die "Partei der Arbeit" | Antifa Infoblatt". www.antifainfoblatt.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  3. ^ Meyer, Ahlrich (2010-01-01), "Niederlande", Das Wissen um Auschwitz, Brill | Schöningh, pp. 52–71, doi:10.30965/9783657770236_005, ISBN 978-3-657-77023-6, retrieved 2023-05-09
  4. ^ Grumke, Thomas; Wagner, Bernd (2013-03-08). Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus: Personen — Organisationen — Netzwerke vom Neonazismus bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-322-97559-1.
  5. ^ "Heiko Schomberg - Fragment der Dissertation vom April 2001 - onliveversion (c) Heiko Schomberg". www.heiko-schomberg.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.