German social democracy abandoned Marxism more slowly than its rivals

Evidence

At the Hanover Congress, and again at the Bad Diirkheim Congress in 1949, the German Socialist Party still recognized the historical and political validity of the class struggle and had the socialization of the means of production as its objective. Fine, this is still how things stand in 1949, in 1950. In 1955, Karl Schiller, who will later become Minister of the Economy and Finance in federal Germany, writes a book that will cause a big stir since it bears the significant title Socialism and Competition, that is to say, not socialism or competition, but socialism and competition. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 568

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader genealogy of how postwar Western European social democracy retreated from class politics toward market accommodation. — connects to: German Social Democracy’s Marxism was colored by Social Darwinism from the 1880s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 93; German Social Democrats neglected and censored Marx and Engels’ papers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 116