A
German party. Short for Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (German Communist Party). Unlike the
PDS the DKP was founded in West-Germany in
1968. Where the
PDS is more a party for East-Germans, who are afraid of the new free market and try to reestablish a more secure system (although they often forget get repressing regime in the former
DDR).
The DKP has other traditions as it was founded as a successor for the
KPD (Communist Party of Germany], which was forbidden in
1957. Contrary to the PDS, which makes a nearly social-democratic, they want to build a new socialistic Germany. They are against
imperalism,
globalism and
militarism.
The DKP has very few voters, as they a stigmatized in West-Germany as a herald for the Soviet regime. In East-Germany there is no space for another
socialistic party next to the PDS, as the PDS unions socialists and disappointed people there. In some regions of the former
DDR the
PDS arrives up to 60% of the votes. The DKP barely reaches 1% in any regions, except some studentic towns.