1891年通过的爱尔福特纲领,标志着德国社会民主党向革命的马克思主义群众性政党发展的进程基本完成。《新时代》在这一时期的活动及其为传播马克思主义所做的大量工作,反映了党的这一斗争进程的一个重要方面。在反社会党人法时期复杂的地下斗争条件下,出版党的报刊、马克思恩格斯的著作以及党的各种文献,对党的理论和政治活动 The Erfurt Program, adopted in 1891, marked the completion of the process by which the German Social Democrats developed toward a revolutionary Marxist mass party. The activities of the “new era” during this period and the large amount of work it has done for the dissemination of Marxism reflect an important aspect of the party’s course of struggle. Under the conditions of the complex underground struggle during the anti-socialist party law, the party’s newspapers and periodicals, the writings of Marx and Engels and the various documents of the party were published and the theoretical and political activities of the party were published