Submissive Helpers of the Socialist Unity Party? The Role and Function of Bloc Parties in the Multiparty System of the German Democratic Republic up to 1989/90 and Changes in Tasks of the Democratic Farmers’ Party of Germany
摘要
‘Socialist democracy’, as practised in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, 1949–1990), entailed no guarantee of freedom, individual rights, or legal certainty, in contrast to the liberal meaning usually associated with the word ‘democracy’. This state form ‘postulated’ by the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) (Morina, 2023, 108, 108–111) was based on the teleological assumption that ‘progress’ would assert itself as a matter of natural law.