Otto Bauer and the Philosophy of Praxis – Then and Now
A Review of Otto Bauer: Zur Aktualität des Austromarxismus, Konferenzband 9. Juli 2008, edited by Pavlina Amon and Stephan Immanuel Teichgräber; Otto Bauer und der Austromarxismus: ‘Integraler Sozialismus’ und die Heutige Linke, edited by Walter Baier, Lisbeth N. Trallori and Derek Weber; Otto Bauer: Studien zur sozial-politischen Philosophie by Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp; Der Grosse Illusionist: Otto Bauer (1881–1938) by Ernst Hanisch; and Otto Bauer–Max Adler: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Austromarxismus (1904–1938) by Peter Goller
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Otto Bauer (1881–1938) has emerged once more in the thought of Western Marxists. The dominant theoretical voice of the Austrian Social Democrats in the late Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the First Austrian Republic, Bauer was re-examined in the 1970s and ’80s as ‘the third way’ was being explored in European politics by Eurocommunists. Bauer again is being discussed in the twenty-first century as not only a European ‘third way’, but as a model for nations across the globe. Bauer’s vision theoretically as well as tactically between 1919 and 1934, when Austrian fascism ended the political efforts of Austrian Social Democracy, was of a pluralist parliamentary governance that sought through party coalitions and the influence of social experiment a developing societal praxis whose socialist principles would realise eventually Marx’s understanding of a classless society. A gradualism in long-range strategy and tactics would lead democratically to greater collective coexistence embracing differing cultures within and beyond separate nations. Reviewed here are five publications between 2005 and 2011 which are either thoughtfully supportive or critically dismissive of Bauer’s multi-cultural models for the socialist coexistence of communities and nations. Two conference collections and three books on Bauer’s thought and political life enable the contemporary mind to evaluate the seminal promise of Bauer’s Marxist understanding, where for him Marxism was a social-scientific instrument to guide societal development.
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Albers Detlev Versuch über Otto Bauer und Antonio Gramsci: Zur politischen Theorie des Marxismus 1983 Berlin Argument Verlag
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Amon Pavlina & Teichgräber Stephan-Immanuel Otto Bauer: Zur Aktualität des Austromarxismus, Konferenzband 9. Juli 2008 2010 Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang
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Baier Walter , Trallori Lisbeth N. & Weber Derek Otto Bauer und der Austromarxismus: ‘Integraler Sozialismus’ und die Heutige Linke 2008 Berlin Karl Dietz Verlag
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Balibar Étienne Swenson James We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship 2004 Princeton Princeton University Press
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Bauer Otto Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie 1907 Vienna Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung
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Bauer Otto Der Weg zum Sozialismus 1919 Vienna Freiheit
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Bauer Otto ‘Das Gleichgewicht der Klassenkraefte’ Der Kampf 1924 17 57 67
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Bauer Otto Otto Bauer Werkausgabe 1980a Volume 1 Vienna Europa Verlag
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Bauer Otto Otto Bauer Werkausgabe 1980b Volume 2 Vienna Europa Verlag
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Bauer Otto Otto Bauer Werkausgabe 1980c Volume 3 Vienna Europa Verlag
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Bauer Otto Otto Bauer Werkausgabe 1980d Volume 4 Vienna Europa Verlag
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Bauer Otto Otto Bauer Werkausgabe 1980e Volume 9 Vienna Europa Verlag
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Blum Mark E. The Austro-Marxists 1890–1918: A Psychobiographical Study 1985 Lexington, KY. University Press of Kentucky
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Braunthal Julius Otto Bauer: Eine Auswahl aus seinem Lebenswerk 1961 Vienna Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung
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Buttinger Joseph In the Twilight of Socialism: A History of the Revolutionary Socialists of Austria 1953 New York Frederick A. Praeger
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Czerwińska-Schupp Ewa Otto Bauer: Studien zur sozial-politischen Philosophie 2005 Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang
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Der Kampf: Sozialdemokratische Monatsschrift 1907 1 Hathi Trust Digital Library
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Garamvölgyi Judit Betriebsräte und sozialer Wandel in Österreich 1919/1920, Studien zur Konstituierungsphase der österreichischen Betriebsräte 1983 Munich R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
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Goller Peter Otto Bauer–Max Adler: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Austromarxismus (1904–1938) 2008 Vienna Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft
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Hanisch Ernst Der Grosse Illusionist: Otto Bauer (1881–1938) 2011 Vienna Böhlau Verlag
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Kant Immanuel Smith Norman Kemp Critique of Pure Reason 1965 New York St Martin’s Press
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Kiss Endre Amon & Teichgräber ‘Ein Revolutionär mit Genauigkeit und Seele (Otto Bauer im dritten Jahrtausend)’ 2010 2010
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Krätke Michael R. ‘Otto Bauer (1881–1938) – Die Mühen des Dritten Wegs’ Zeitschrift für Sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft 1997 98 1 25
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Lehner Peter Ulrich Baier , Trallori & Weber ‘Reflexionen zu Sozialismus und Demokratie’ 2008 2008
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Lehner Peter Ulrich Amon & Teichgräber ‘“Wirtschaftliche Selbstverwaltung des ganzen Volkes”. Zu den wirtschaftsdemokratischen Entwürfen Otto Bauers’ 2010 2010
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Leser Norbert ‘. . . auf halben Wegen und zu halber Tat . . .’ Politische Auswirkungen einer österreichischen Befindlichkeit 2000 Vienna Amalthea
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Loewenberg Peter Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach 1985 Berkeley University of California Press
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Marramao Giacomo Baier , Trallori & Weber ‘Divergenzen, Konflikte und Metamorphosen’ 2008 2008
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Rogow Arnold A. ‘Dora’s Brother’ International Review of Psychoanalysis 1979 6 2 239 259
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Weber Derek Baier , Trallori & Weber ‘Otto Bauer und die österreichische ArbeiterInnenbewegung. Reform, Revolution und westlicher Marxismus’ 2008 2008
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Krätke 1997, p. 21.
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2
Weber 2008, p. 77.
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3
Lehner 2008, pp. 242–6.
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Czerwińska-Schupp 2005, p. 585.
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Czerwińska-Schupp 2005, pp. 580–1.
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Balibar 2004, p. 189.
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Balibar 2004, pp. 189, 198, 200.
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Balibar 2004, p. 189.
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Bauer 1980a, pp. 88–92.
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Balibar 2004, pp. 192–3.
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12
Hanisch 2011, p. 118.
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14
Hanisch 2011, p. 393.
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Hanisch 2011, p. 14.
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Hanisch 2011, p. 11.
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See Rogow 1979; Blum 1985; Loewenberg 1985.
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Hanisch 2011, pp. 13, 273–4.
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Hanisch 2011, p. 274.
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Leser 2000, pp. 9–13.
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21
Bauer 1980e, p. 83.
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Lehner 2010, p. 90.
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Bauer 1924, p. 65.
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Bauer 1919, pp. 104–7.
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Cf. Bauer 1980b, pp. 89ff., 133ff., 201ff.; and Garamvölgyi 1983, pp. 71–108.
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26
Lehner 2008, p. 246.
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27
Marramao 2008, p. 51; Bauer 1980c, p. 588.
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28
Kiss 2010, p. 29; Bauer 1907, p. 127, n. 1.
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29
Bauer 1980d, p. 314.
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30
Goller 2008, p. 7.
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31
Goller 2008, p. 18.
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32
Goller 2008, p. 46.
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Otto Bauer and the Philosophy of Praxis – Then and Now
A Review of Otto Bauer: Zur Aktualität des Austromarxismus, Konferenzband 9. Juli 2008, edited by Pavlina Amon and Stephan Immanuel Teichgräber; Otto Bauer und der Austromarxismus: ‘Integraler Sozialismus’ und die Heutige Linke, edited by Walter Baier, Lisbeth N. Trallori and Derek Weber; Otto Bauer: Studien zur sozial-politischen Philosophie by Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp; Der Grosse Illusionist: Otto Bauer (1881–1938) by Ernst Hanisch; and Otto Bauer–Max Adler: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Austromarxismus (1904–1938) by Peter Goller
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Otto Bauer (1881–1938) has emerged once more in the thought of Western Marxists. The dominant theoretical voice of the Austrian Social Democrats in the late Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the First Austrian Republic, Bauer was re-examined in the 1970s and ’80s as ‘the third way’ was being explored in European politics by Eurocommunists. Bauer again is being discussed in the twenty-first century as not only a European ‘third way’, but as a model for nations across the globe. Bauer’s vision theoretically as well as tactically between 1919 and 1934, when Austrian fascism ended the political efforts of Austrian Social Democracy, was of a pluralist parliamentary governance that sought through party coalitions and the influence of social experiment a developing societal praxis whose socialist principles would realise eventually Marx’s understanding of a classless society. A gradualism in long-range strategy and tactics would lead democratically to greater collective coexistence embracing differing cultures within and beyond separate nations. Reviewed here are five publications between 2005 and 2011 which are either thoughtfully supportive or critically dismissive of Bauer’s multi-cultural models for the socialist coexistence of communities and nations. Two conference collections and three books on Bauer’s thought and political life enable the contemporary mind to evaluate the seminal promise of Bauer’s Marxist understanding, where for him Marxism was a social-scientific instrument to guide societal development.
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