Western Civilization II / Unit 11 WC2 1028 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The First International, 1864, and Mass Socialist Parties
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The idea
The International Workingmen's Association met in London in September eighteen sixty-four, Marx among its quarrelling members. Mass socialist parties followed: Germany's SPD in eighteen seventy-five, French and Italian parties, and Britain's Labour, which formed in nineteen hundred and was never Marxist.
In practice
The SPD, among Germany's most powerful parties by the nineties.
Where people slip
The anchor lists Labour among the parties of the seventies.
Your place on the trail
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