Founded by leading socialist politicians and theorists, the magazine's first edition was released on 1 January 1883. After the abolition of the
Anti-Socialist Laws, the magazine was transformed from a monthly into a weekly on 1 October 1890. In 1901, it became the official magazine of the SPD and its property. It was edited by
Karl Kautsky and until their withdrawal from the SPD in 1917. Following that, the more right-wing
Heinrich Cunow, who supported the
First World War, He
Die Neue Zeit was succeeded by '''', of which the first issue was published on 1 April 1924. Austrian socialist theoretical journal,
Der Kampf, was inspired from
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