Die Neue Zeit

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Die Neue Zeit ("The New Times") was a German socialist theoretical journal of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) that was published from 1883 to 1923.{{cite web|title=Neue Zeit (Stuttgart 1823-1923)|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/periodicals/archive/|publisher=Marxists|accessdate=18 February 2017}} Its headquarters was in Stuttgart, Germany.

History and profile

Founded by leading socialist politicians and theorists,{{Cite web|url=http://cgi-host.uni-marburg.de/~omanz/forschung/modul.php?f_mod=Mh04|title=Literaturkritik in Deutschland an der Universität Marburg|access-date=27 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040113050427/http://cgi-host.uni-marburg.de/~omanz/forschung/modul.php?f_mod=Mh04|archive-date=13 January 2004|url-status=dead|language=de}} the magazine's first edition was released on 1 January 1883. After the abolition of the Anti-Socialist Laws, the magazine was transformed from a monthly into a weekly on 1 October 1890. In 1901 it became the official magazine of the SPD and its property. The magazine's decline and end came with the hyperinflation of the 1920s. It became the most important organ of the SPD, competing with Sozialistische Monatshefte.[http://library.fes.de/sozmon/070201-smh-begleittext.pdf Die "Sozialistischen Monatshefte" (1895/96 - 1933) ] It was edited by Karl Kautsky and {{ill|Emanuel Wurm|de}} until their withdrawal from the SPD in 1917. Following that, the more right-wing Heinrich Cunow, who supported the First World War, took over as its chief editor.

Eduard Bernstein's "Problems of socialism" articles where published in the periodical from 1896 to 1898, in which he first elaborated his revisionist Marxist position, sharply criticised by the more orthodox Kautsky.{{cite journal | last=Ostrowski | first=Marius S | title=‘Reform or revolution’, redux : Eduard Bernstein on the 1918–19 German Revolution | journal=Historical Research | volume=95 | issue=268 | date=12 May 2022 | issn=0950-3471 | doi=10.1093/hisres/htab043 | pages=213–239}} He

Die Neue Zeit was succeeded by {{ill|Die Gesellschaft (political magazine)|de|Die Gesellschaft (Politikzeitschrift)|lt=Die Gesellschaft }},[http://www.ghil.ac.uk/per/p_zs011.html Home: German Historical Institute London (GHIL)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185201/http://www.ghil.ac.uk/per/p_zs011.html|date=27 September 2007}} of which the first issue was published on 1 April 1924.[http://library.fes.de/fulltext/bibliothek/chronik/band2/e235f496.html Chronik der deutschen Sozialdemokratie. - Band 2. - Stichtag: 1. April 1924]

Austrian socialist theoretical journal, Der Kampf, was inspired from Die Neue Zeit.{{cite journal

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Notable contributors

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External links

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[http://library.fes.de/nz/ Die Neue Zeit Online] in the digital library (Digitalen Bibliothek) of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
[https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/neue-zeit.htm Die Neue Zeit in English]
[http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2145768&bibid=TUDA An issue of Die Neue Zeit from 1893]
Volumes at archive.org: 1890: [https://archive.org/stream/dieneuezeit08kaut 8] * 1894: [https://archive.org/details/dieneuezeit00kautgoog 12] * 1898: [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NsVMAAAAYAAJ 16] * 1908: [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ssNMAAAAYAAJ 26] * 1922: [https://archive.org/details/dieneuezeit402kaut 40]

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Category:Magazines established in 1883

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Category:Social Democratic Party of Germany

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