Workers' Party of Germany
Workers' Party of Germany Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands | |
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| Abbreviation | PdAD |
| Leader | Michael Koth |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Dissolved | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Nordhausen |
| Ideology | Juche 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.
The party modeled itself around the Workers' Party of Korea and its Juche ideology, which it viewed as national communist. 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. 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".
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. The party thus saw itself inspired by the Juche ideology, which had endured the collapse of communism.