''Arbeiterpolitik, Wochenzeitschrift für wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus'' (English: ''Labor Politics, The Weekly Journal for Scientific Socialism'') was a German

scientific socialist Scientific socialism is a term coined in 1840 by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his book ''What is Property?'' to mean a society ruled by a scientific government, i.e., one whose sovereignty rests upon reason, rather than sheer will: Thus, in a given ...

weekly newspaper, published by

Johann Knief Johann Knief (20 April 1880, Bremen – 6 April 1919, Bremen) was a German communist newspaper editor, teacher and politician from Bremen. Biography Born in 1880, Knief began training to be a primary school teacher in 1901, joining the Social D ...

and others for a radical left-wing group of

Social-Democrats Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote s ...

, the ''Bremer Linksradikale'', in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

from 1916 to 1919. Among its notable contributors were Antonie Pannekoek and

Otto Rühle Karl Heinrich Otto Rühle (23 October 1874 – 24 June 1943) was a German Marxist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars as well as a council communist theorist. Early years Otto was born in Großschirma, Saxony on 23 Octo ...

. The journal mostly wrote against the right wing and non-revolutionary tendencies of the SPD. The magazine welcomed and defended the October Revolution. In 1918 individual chapters from ''

The State and Revolution ''The State and Revolution'' (1917) is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dicta ...

'' and from ''The Military Program of the Proletarian Revolution were published'' by

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...

in the newspaper. In 1919, the group behind ''Arbeiterpolitik'' joined the

Communist Party of Germany The Communist Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, , KPD ) was a major political party in the Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West German ...

.Lenin: 88. TO A. A. JOFFE AND V. R. MENZHINSKY
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