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Wewnętrzne podziały i opozycja wewnątrzpartyjna w Socjaldemokratycznej Partii Niemiec w drugiej połowie XX wieku

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The Social Democratic Party of Germany was (and still is) a political party, in which the existence of different informal groups and clubs (performing the function of the Opposition inside the party) is admissible. After the end of the war and the return of the SPD to a legał activity, there followed - within it - a revival of not only old structures, but also that of old divisions into the leit wing and the right wing, which referred to the ideas of revisionism and questions of reforms capable of changing or maintaining the capitalist political system. With time, there formed two main wings among the democrats: the right wing - known as Kanalarbeiter, and later on Seeheimer Kreis, and the left wing - concentrating around Frankfu rter Kreis. The lines of division within the party, and also among the deputies concentrating around the SPD faction in the Bundestag, as well as the main points of the conflict within the party, covered political topics that were current in the 1980s, such as: a double decision NATO, new social movements and disarmament. The conflicts arising on the ground of those issues led to antagonisms within the party and - in consequence - their loss of the ability to exercise power in the State.