August Bebel

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Bebel, (Ferdinand) August (22 February 1840 - 13 August 1913)

A German Socialist leader, Bebel was a freethinker, an antimilitarist, and a founder of the German Social Democratic Party. In the Reichstag, Bebel went so far as to say that “the aim of our party is on the political plane the republican form of State; on the economic, Socialism; and on the plane which we term the religious, atheism. . . . Christianity is the enemy of liberty and of civilization. It has kept mankind in chains.”

According to Joseph McCabe, Bebel was zealously opposed to theology, and was, “like all the Socialist leaders of his time, an atheist and freely expressed it in his work on Woman and Christianity.”

(See an article by Soma Marik that Bebel also was a "male socialist feminist."

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