Kommunistische Partei (Germany)

Communist Party
Kommunistische Partei
AbbreviationKP
LeaderCentral Committee
FoundedJune 2024
Split fromGerman Communist Party
Preceded byCommunist Organisation
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism[1]
Political positionFar-left
Website
https://kommunistischepartei.de/

The Communist Party (German: Kommunistische Partei, KP) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Germany founded in June 2024.[2] The party is an associated party of the European Communist Action.[3]

History

In the course of the internal discussion about the German Communist Party's orientation in relation to the anti-monopolistic strategy (AMS), some, mainly young members, left the party and the youth organization SDAJ because they rejected the AMS. They initially founded the group "What next?", from which the Communist Organization (German: Kommunistische Organisation, KO) emerged in mid-2018, which was eventually succeeded by the Communist Party when it emerged in June 2024.[4][5]

Kommunistische Organisation (2018-2022)

In 2018, "What next?" initiative solidified into a formal, nationwide cadre organization known as the Communist Organization (German: Kommunistische Organisation, KO). The KO did not initially constitute itself as a formal political party; it functioned as a "pre-party" organization..[6]

Its primary stated objective was to conduct a rigorous theoretical "clarification process" (German: Klärungsprozess) to study Marxist-Leninist theory, analyse modern German capitalism, and eventually establish a true, revolutionary communist party. They set up local chapters across Germany and engaged heavily in trade unions, schools and factory organizing.[6][7]

2022 internal split

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the party experienced a defining turning point. The KO experienced a massive internal ideological split regarding how to characterize the war:

The Majority Faction (which later became the KP) argued that the war was a conflict between competing imperialist blocs (the US/NATO vs. Russia). They maintained that Russia is an imperialist power and that communists should not support either side, adhering to a traditional anti-war stance held by communists.[8][9]

The Minority Faction argued that Russia was defending itself against imperialism expansion and that the primary enemy was NATO.[10][8]

This disagreement escalated until the organization formally ruptured. The minority faction kept the original website and legal infrastructure of the KO.[11] The majority faction which contained the bulk of the active members and leadership had to rebuild their external structures.[12]

Foundation as the Kommunistische Partei (2024-present)

Following the split, the majority faction continued the creation of its program and strengthened its international alignments, becoming an associated party of the European Communist Action, a regional alliance of Anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist parties.[3][5]

In June 2024, at its national congress, the organization declared the preparatory phase complete. The group officially changed its name from Kommunistische Organisation to Kommunistische Partei (KP), transitioning into a multi-year formal "party-building process" (German: Gründungsprozess). On the Second Party Congress in April of 2026, the party realised its party program; Rather than immediately prioritizing mainstream electoral politics, the party's ongoing actives focus on the future establishment of a dedicated independent youth wing, as well as expanding enterprise and factory cells.[13]

Ideology

According to its party program, the organization adheres to anti-revisionist Marxist Leninism, seeking the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. The party is structured according to the principles of democratic centralism and firmly supports proletarian internationalism, viewing global revolutions as a single, unified class struggle. The party has historically been supporters of Soviet leadership under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, viewing subsequent Soviet leadership as revisionist. While it recognizes East Germany and the USSR as socialist states until the Revolutions of 1989, it rejects most modern communist governments as capitalist and revisionist, partly due to their adoption of market friendly principles; Cuba is the sole exception to this, which it still considers a legitimate socialist state. The party considers parties such as the Chinese Communist Party to have fallen into revisionism during the Sino-Soviet split. Furthermore, the party explicitly rejects Trotskyism[14], Maoism[15] and Hoxhaism[16] as revisionist deviations. Central to its platform are the ideas such as women's liberation, which the party argues is fundamental to working class liberation due to the inherent oppression of women under capitalism.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Programmatische Thesen". Kommunistische Partei. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "Report from the 1st Congress of the Communist Party". Kommunistische Partei. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Report from the 1st Congress of the Communist Party". kommunistischepartei.de. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2025. We welcome all efforts for a closer international coordination of the communist parties on the basis of ideological clarity and unity, especially the founding of the European Communist Action, and want to intensify our relations with the parties and organizations of the ECA and the revolutionary pole as a whole.
  4. ↑ "SDAJ Abspaltung geht KO". RedGlobe (in German). Archived from the original on 22 November 2019.
  5. 1 2 "K.O. gründet K.P." RedGlobe. 4 July 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Wer wir sind und was wir wollen". Kommunistische Partei. 2018.
  7. ↑ "Thesen zum Charakter der Kommunistischen Partei und zum Selbstverständnis der Kommunistischen Organisation". 20 February 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Von Dissenz und Klärung: Der Kommunismus-Kongress". 26 September 2022.
  9. ↑ "Der Kommunismus-Kongress 2023". 12 October 2023.
  10. ↑ "Russland widersetzt sich in der Ukraine dem Imperialismus". 8 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "Die KO wurde gespalten – Wer behält den Namen?". 19 December 2022.
  12. ↑ "Richtigstellung zur Veröffentlichung „Die KO wurde gespalten – Wer behält den Namen?"". 21 December 2022.
  13. ↑ "Voran zum Aufbau der Kommunistischen Partei!". 4 May 2026.
  14. ↑ Spanidis, Thanasis (11 June 2020). ""Trotsky and Trotskyism"". Kommunistische Partei. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
  15. ↑ ""The Great Leap Backward"" (PDF). Google Documents. March 2024.
  16. ↑ ""The Struggle against opportunism and revisionism"". 1 July 2018.
  17. ↑ "Programmatische Thesen - Proletarische Frauenbewegung". Kommunistische Partei. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
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