Reinventing Social Democracy

Reinventing Social Democracy explores the Godesberg program of November 1959 and offers an original interpretation of both the written text and its subsequent uses. This book is a staple for courses on German politics, political parties, history of Germany, history of political ideas.

Karim Fertikh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Strasbourg (Sciences Po Strasbourg) and a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He has widely published on the history of German social democracy and on EU politics.

Preface. Introduction. 1. The Changes in the Social Democrats' Intellectual Milieu 2. 'The Old Socialist Idea That Knowledge Is Power' 3. Producing a Programmatic Text: A Political Sociology of the Commission's Work 4. In the Name of the Party 5. Bad Godesberg and its Afterlives. Conclusion