Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany

Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
Founded	April 1917; 108 years ago (1917-04)
Dissolved	September 1922; 102 years ago (1922-09) (majority)
Split from	SPD
Merged into	KPD (faction, 1920)[a] SPD (majority, 1922)[b] SAPD (minority, 1931)[c]
Newspaper	Die Freiheit
Membership	120,000 (January 1918) 750,000 (Spring 1920)
Ideology	Centrist Marxism[1] Democratic socialism Pacifism
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	International Working Union of Socialist Parties
Colors	Red
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The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, USPD) was a short-lived political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The organization was established in 1917 as the result of a split of anti-war members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), from the left of the party as well as the centre and the right. The organization attempted to chart a course between electorally oriented reformism on the one hand and Bolshevik revolutionism on the other.^{[citation needed]} After several splits and mergers, the last part of the organization was terminated in 1931 through merger with the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD).

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