The Central Council of Dada for the World Revolution

The Central Council of Dada for the World Revolution was the name of the political party set up by the Berlin Dada movement following World War I.

The Berlin Dadaists supported the Spartacist rising of 1918-1919, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. When this revolution was crushed and Liebknecht and Luxemburg killed, the Dadas continued to seek power through democratic means. They were present at the Congress of the Weimar Congress, but still remained relatively powerless.

In the year 1919 in Berlin, the group outlined the Dadaist ideals of radical communism.^[1]

References

1. The Central Council of Dada for the World Revolution. "What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?". Tract, 1919. "Dadaism demands: 1) The international revolutionary union of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical Communism; (...) The immediate expropriation of property (...) and the communal feeding of all (...) Introduction of the simultaneist poem as a Communist state prayer."

Links and Sources

• Dada: Art as weapon against establishment
• Avant-garde of terror