Austromarxism

Austromarxist theorist Otto Bauer, photographed in 1919
Former Staatkanzler Karl Renner, photographed in 1920

Austromarxism (also stylised as Austro-Marxism) was a Marxist theoretical current led by Victor Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Max Adler and Rudolf Hilferding,[1][2] members of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria in Austria-Hungary and the First Austrian Republic, and later supported by Austrian-born revolutionary and assassin of the Imperial Minister-President Count von Stürgkh, Friedrich Adler. It is known for its theory of nationality and nationalism, and its attempt to conciliate it with socialism in the imperial context.[2] More generally, the Austromarxists strove to achieve a synthesis between social democracy and revolutionary socialism. Uniquely, Austromarxists posited that class consciousness in the working class could be achieved more organically through the maintenance of national autonomy, in contrast to the internationalist perspective and the notion of the party vanguard popular in orthodox Marxist circles elsewhere in Europe.

  1. ^ Vogelsang, Thilo [in German], ed. (1971). Lexikon zur Geschichte und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert [Encyclopedia of history and politics in the 20th century] (in German). Deutscher Bücherbund Stuttgart. p. 59.
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