"Arbeiterverräter", "Sozialchauvinisten", "Lakaien der Bourgeoisie" Der sozialdemokratische Reformismus in Kaiserreich und Weimarerer Republik als Desiderat einer postideologischen Forschung

Abstract

The author traces the legacy of the reformist network of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) from World War I to the Weimar Republic. It focuese on the communication structures and the political interests of its members. Wolfgang Heine, Max Quarck, Otto Landsberg, Eduard David, Albert Südekum, Georg Gradnauer and others are portrayed as representatives of a generation of middle-class social democrats that suffered from being either ignored in labour movement research or from being associated with "opportunism" and "workers' treachery" by the 'official' social democratic history.