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When people speak of European Marxism, they have in mind a division between an Eastern tradition oriented to Lenin and a Western one originating in Luxemburg and Gramsci. Too little is known about the Central European tradition, which is actually no less developed or rich and whose most important manifestation was Austro-Marxism. The municipal policies of Red Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s made Austro-Marxism famous worldwide
In 1927 Bauer attributed the coining of the term Austro-Marxism to an unnamed US socialist:
"At that time the term Austro-Marxists designated a group of Austrian comrades who were active in the field of scholarship: Max Adler, Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilferding, Gustav Eckstein, Otto Bauer, Friedrich Adler, and others. What united them was not a specific political tendency but the distinctiveness of their scientific work. While Marx and Engels were principally inspired by Hegel and the later generation of Marxists had accepted materialism, these more recent Marxists drew partly on Kant, partly on Mach. In Austrian universities they had to deal with the so-called Austrian school of political economy. And, finally, in Old-Austria they were all shaken and politically socialized by the struggles of nationalities and had to learn how to apply the Marxist conception of history to complex phenomena, which did not permit a superficial application of Marxist method"
jacobin.com
In 1927 Bauer attributed the coining of the term Austro-Marxism to an unnamed US socialist:
"At that time the term Austro-Marxists designated a group of Austrian comrades who were active in the field of scholarship: Max Adler, Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilferding, Gustav Eckstein, Otto Bauer, Friedrich Adler, and others. What united them was not a specific political tendency but the distinctiveness of their scientific work. While Marx and Engels were principally inspired by Hegel and the later generation of Marxists had accepted materialism, these more recent Marxists drew partly on Kant, partly on Mach. In Austrian universities they had to deal with the so-called Austrian school of political economy. And, finally, in Old-Austria they were all shaken and politically socialized by the struggles of nationalities and had to learn how to apply the Marxist conception of history to complex phenomena, which did not permit a superficial application of Marxist method"
Otto Bauer and the Austro-Marxists Wanted a Socialist Revolution in Democracy
Austrian socialist Otto Bauer, like others in the too often forgotten “Austro-Marxist” school, sought to build a mass workers’ movement that could win parliamentary democracy — and then go beyond it by establishing a socialist republic.
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