Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity. Volume II

Changing the World: The Politics of Austro-Marxism
Herausgeber: Blum, Mark E; Smaldone, William

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This essential volume collects the key writings of Austrian Social Democracy on the questions of War, Revolution, and political strategy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 909
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781608469932
• ISBN-10: 160846993X
• Artikelnr.: 50990924

Autorenporträt

Mark E. Blum, Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He published books, monographs, and articles on European socialism, including The Austro-Marxists, 1890-1918: A Psychobiographical Study (University of Kentucky, 1985), and most recently, with William Smaldone, Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity, Volume I Austro-Marxist Theory and Strategy (Brill, 2016). William Smaldone, Ph.D. (1989),SUNY at Binghamton, is Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He has published monographs and articles on the history of European socialism, including, most recently, European Socialism: A Concise History with Documents (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

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)
Otto Bauer
 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)
Rudolf Hilferding
 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)
Karl Renner
 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
Friedrich Adler
 Imperfections in the Programme Design (1926)
 The Conflict over the Definition of Democracy (1926)
Max Adler
 Dictatorship (1922)
 Political or Social Democracy (1926)
 Towards a Discussion of the New Party Programme (1926)
Otto Bauer
 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)
Rudolf Hilferding
 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)
Karl Renner
 Principle in Practice (1925)
(1928–34): Collapse
Introduction to Part 4
Max Adler
 A New Approach to Our Politics? (1928)
 Practical and Impractical Class Struggle (1928)
 On the Principle of Proletarian Politics (1928)
 How Do We Get to Socialism? (1932)
Otto Bauer
 Class Struggle in Democracy (1928)
 The Prerequisites of Parliamentarianism (1928)
 Revolutionary Spadework (1928)
 Austria’s Economic and Social Situation (1928)
 A Reply to Max Adler (1929)
 A Letter to Karl Renner (1930)
 We Will Defend Our Threatened Freedom (1932)
 For Democracy (1933)
 Work for 200,000 (1933)
 Social Democracy and the Corporate Order (1933)
 Revolution and Counterrevolution in Austria (1934)
 Tactical Lessons of the Austrian Catastrophe (1934)
Rudolf Hilferding
 Leaving the Government (1930)
 In the Danger Zone (1930)
 Social Control or Private Control over the Economy (1931)
 Under the Threat of Fascism (1932)
 Between Decisions (1933)
 Revolutionary Socialism (1934)
Karl Renner
 Some Experiences of Practical Class Struggle (1928)
 A Different Austria. Into the Decisive Struggle! (1930)
 Will Democracy Prove Itself? (1932)
Bibliography
Index