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The `!Gotha Program`! (`F33f`_`[German`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=German_language]`_`f: `*das Gothaer Programm`*), also called the `!Gotha Programme`!, was the `F33f`_`[party platform`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Party_platform]`_`f adopted by the nascent `F33f`_`[Social Democratic Party of Germany`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany]`_`f (SPD) at its initial `F33f`_`[party congress`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Party_congress]`_`f, held in the town of `F33f`_`[Gotha`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Gotha_(town)]`_`f in 1875. The program called for `F33f`_`[universal suffrage`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Universal_suffrage]`_`f, `F33f`_`[freedom of association`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Freedom_of_association]`_`f, limits on the `F33f`_`[working day`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Working_day]`_`f, and for other laws protecting the `F33f`_`[rights and health of workers`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Worker's_rights]`_`f.`:cite-ref-gotha-1-0[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-gotha-1]`_`f] The Gotha Program was explicitly `F33f`_`[socialist`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Socialism]`_`f: "The Socialist Labor Party of Germany endeavors by every lawful means to bring about a free state and a socialistic society, to effect the destruction of the `F33f`_`[iron law of wages`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Iron_law_of_wages]`_`f by doing away with the system of `F33f`_`[wage labor`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Wage_labor]`_`f, to abolish exploitation of every kind, and to extinguish all social and political inequality."`:cite-ref-gotha-1-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-gotha-1]`_`f] It was superseded by the `F33f`_`[Erfurt Program`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Erfurt_Program]`_`f in 1891.

`F33f`_`[Karl Marx`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Karl_Marx]`_`f famously attacked the platform, which he had read in draft form, in his `*`F33f`_`[Critique of the Gotha Programme`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Critique_of_the_Gotha_Programme]`_`f`*.`:cite-ref-marx-2-0[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-marx-2]`_`f]

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`:cite-note-gotha-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-gotha-1-0]`_`f `:citerefhanover-historical-texts-project`aHanover Historical Texts Project (ed.). "The Gotha and Erfurt Programs: Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text at the web site of the Hanover Historical Texts Project". `F33f`_`[Hanover College`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Hanover_College]`_`f. Retrieved 28 January 2013.

`:cite-note-marx-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-marx-2-0]`_`f `:citerefmarx`aMarx, Karl. "Critique of the Gotha Program". `F33f`_`[marxists.org`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Marxists.org]`_`f. Retrieved 28 January 2013.

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