Lassalleanism
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Lassalleanism was a state socialist political tendency developed by the German jurist and socialist activist Ferdinand Lassalle. Lassalleanism viewed the state as a neutral, eternal institution above
Ferdinand Lassalle
Otto von Bismarck
The General German Workers' Association was a German political party founded on 23 May 1863 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony by Ferdinand Lassalle. It was the first organized mass working-class party in
Lassalleanism
…advocated an alliance between the workers' movement and the Prussian state against the liberal bourgeoisie. The ideology was most prominent in the General German Workers' Association (ADAV), which Lassalle founded in 1863. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who were Lassalle's contemporaries, were vociferous critics of Lassalleanism…
Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of the ADAV