Otto Bauer

Otto Bauer

Otto Bauer (September 5, 1881 – July 4, 1938) was an Austrian Social Democrat who is considered one of the leading thinkers of the left socialist Austro-Marxist tendency. He was also an early inspiration for both the for New Left movement and Eurocommunism in their attempt to find a "Third way" to democratic socialism.

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Life

Having studied at the University of Vienna, Bauer finished his PhD in Law in 1906 and published his first book, Die Sozialdemokratie und die Nationalitätenfrage, in 1907. Although he was politically active during his studies, his gradual rise in the Austrian Social Democratic Party began after he had finished his doctoral studies. He founded Der Kampf, the theoretical journal of the party in 1907 and between 1907 and 1914 he was secretary of the party. As one of Austria's leading "left" socialists,[1] Bauer was able to establish himself as a likely successor to Viktor Adler as party leader.

Captured on the Eastern Front in the early months of the First World War, Bauer spent three years as a prisoner of war in Russia, returning to Austria in 1917. After Viktor Adler's death in 1918, Bauer became leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party. From November 1918 to July 1919 the Austrian Social Democrats formed a coalition government with the Christian Social Party and Otto Bauer was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Despite his Marxist socialism, he had pan-Germanic and nationalist ideas, and was disappointed when the Treaty of Versailles eliminated the possibility of a union of Austria with Germany.[2]

When Engelbert Dollfuss, with the assistance of elements of the Christian Social Party and the Heimwehr, installed an authoritarian, corporatist dictatorship in 1933, the activities of the Austrian Social Democrats were severely curtailed. Following the Social Democrats' failed uprising in February, 1934, Otto Bauer was forced into exile.[3] He continued to organize the Austrian Social Democrats' resistance first from Brno, Czechoslovakia, and later from Paris, France. He continued his literary and theoretical work until his death.

He died in Paris, France, on July 4, 1938, aged 56, just four months after Austria had become part of Hitler's Reich.

His sister Ida Bauer was a patient of Sigmund Freud, who published a famous case study about her using the pseudonym Dora.

Major works

  • Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question (1907)
  • The World Revolution (1919)
  • The Road to Socialism (1919)
  • Bolshevism or Social Democracy? (1920)
  • The New Course of Soviet Russia (1921)
  • The Austrian Revolution (1923)
  • Fascism (1936)
  • The Crisis of Democracy (1936)
  • Between Two World Wars? (1937).

Quotes

  • "The personal principle wants to organize nations not in territorial bodies but in simple association of persons", in Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question, 1907.
  • "In Turkestan and Azerbaijan monuments to Marx stand opposite the mosques, and the Mullah in Persia mingles quotations from Marx with passages from the Koran when he calls the people to the Holy War against European Imperialism." Marx als Mahnungg (1923), p. 83.

References

  1. ^ Bourne, J.M. Who's Who In World War One. New York: Taylor and Francis e-library, 2002. p 17. (Accessed via Google Books 2/21/11.)
  2. ^ Bourne 2002, p. 17.
  3. ^ Brook-Shepherd, Gordon (1996). The Austrians : a thousand-year odyssey. HarperCollins. pp. 283. ISBN 0 00 638255 X. 

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