Austro-Marxism : the ideology of unity / edited by Mark E. Blum, William Smaldone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blum, Mark E., editor.

Smaldone, William, editor.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series; volume138.

Historical Materialism Book Series; volume138

Standardized Title:

Austro-Marxism (Brill)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austro-Marxist school.

Socialists--Austria.

Socialists.

Socialism--Austria--History.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2017.

Summary:

During the first half of the twentieth century, Austrian socialist thinkers such as Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, and Max Adler emerged from and helped transform Austrian Social Democracy into one of Europe's best organized and most effective political and social movements. Equipped with extensive introductions that outline the intellectual and political background within which the Austro Marxists worked, these volumes represent the most thorough effort to date to provide a representative sampling in English of the Austro-Marxists' key theoretical ideas and their approaches to politic action. Drawing on their writings from the early twentieth century until the collapse of Austrian Socialism in the 1930s, these volumes illustrate the conceptual richness of Austro-Marxist thought and the enduring challenge that socialists faced then and now in the realization of their hopes.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

(1889–1914): Halcyon Days

Introduction to Part 1

Resolutions of the Austrian Social Democratic Party Congress at Hainfeld (30–1 December 1888 and 1 January 1889) and the Subsequent Party Congress in Vienna (Pentecost 1892)

The Nationalities Programme of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (1899)

Otto Bauer

The Road to Power (1909)

Parliamentarianism (1910)

Internal Conflicts in Austrian Social Democracy (1910)

The Dangers of Reformism (1913)

The Basic Question of Our Tactic (1913)

Rudolf Hilferding

Parliamentarianism and the Mass Strike (1904)

With Collective Power (1912)

Karl Renner

What Has Social Democracy Accomplished? (1907)

Sympathies and Antipathies (1909)

Our Party Congress (1909)

The Organisation of the World (1910)

The Reckless Regime (1914)

(1914–20): War and Revolution

Introduction to Part 2

Friedrich Adler

Unity or Threefold Division in the International (1919)

Letter to Leo Trotsky (1919)

Max Adler

Democracy and the Council System (1919)

The Russian Revolution and the European Proletariat (1917)

The German-Austrian State (1918)

One Year of Revolution (1919)

Socialisation during the Republic’s First Year (1919)

Council Democracy or Dictatorship? (1919)

Historical Necessity or Necessary Politics? (1915)

Europeans, not Central Europeans! (1915)

For the Future of the German Workers’ Movement (1916)

Revolutionary Trust! (1918)

Clarity! (1918)

Expand the Council System! (1919)

The Socialisation Question (1919)

Political and Economic Power Relations and Socialisation (1920)

Revolutionary Politics or Illusions of Power (1920)

The Crisis of Socialism (1916)

What is Class Struggle? (1919)

On the Threshold of the Transition from Democracy to Socialism (1919)

(1921–7): Stabilisation and Growth

Introduction to Part 3

Imperfections in the Programme Design (1926)

The Conflict over the Definition of Democracy (1926)

Dictatorship (1922)

Political or Social Democracy (1926)

Towards a Discussion of the New Party Programme (1926)

The Struggle for Power (1924)

The Social Democratic Agrarian Programme (1925)

The Programme of the Social Democratic Workers Party of German Austria (1926)

The Party’s Next Tasks (1927)

The July Events (1927)

The Transformation of Politics (1922)

Problems of Our Time (1924)

Realistic Pacifism (1924)

The Heidelberg Programme (1925)

The Tasks of Social Democracy in the Republic (1927)

Principle in Practice (1925)

(1928–34): Collapse

Introduction to Part 4

A New Approach to Our Politics? (1928)

Practical and Impractical Class Struggle (1928).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-35196-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004351967 DOI