Program of the AAUD

December 1920

1. The AAUD fights for the class unity of the proletariat.

2. Its goal is a classless society, the first phase of which is the dictatorship of the proletariat, that is, the will of the proletariat alone determining the political and economic organization of society in its entirety, thanks to the organization of the councils.

3. The progressive realization of the council idea is the road which the growth of the self- consciousness of the proletarian class is taking. The dictators, properly speaking, are the delegates of the councils; these delegates must carry out the decisions of the councils. The councils1 can be recalled at any time by the rank and file which bestowed their mandates. There is no place for so-called leaders except as advisors.

4. The AAUD rejects all reformist and opportunist methods of struggle.

5. The AAUD is against any participation in parliamentarism, since that would mean sabotage of the council idea.

6. Likewise, the AAUD rejects all participation in the legal enterprise councils as dangerous class collaboration with the employers.

7. The AAUD is opposed to trade unionism because the latter is opposed to the council idea.

8. But the AAUD is particularly opposed in the most violent possible manner to the trade unions because they are the principal obstacles to the continuation of the proletarian revolution in Germany. They are the principal obstacles standing in the way of the unification of the proletariat as a class. 

9. The goal of the AAUD is unitary organization. All of its efforts will be directed towards the attainment of this goal. Without admitting the justification for the existence of political parties (since historical development impels towards their dissolution), the AAUD does not fight against the political organization of the KAPD, whose goals and methods of struggle are also those of the AAUD, and strives to move forward alongside the KAPD in the revolutionary struggle.

10. The mission of the AAUD is to carry out the revolution in the workplace. It takes the political and economic education of the workers seriously.

11. During the phase of the conquest of political power, the Factory Organization becomes a link in the proletarian dictatorship exercised in the workplace by the factory councils, which is founded upon the Factory Organization. The purpose of the Factory Organization is to assure that political power is always and exclusively exercised by the executive council.