Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity. Volume II, Changing the World: The Politics of Austro-Marxism (Historical Materialism Book, 138)

Mark E. Blum

ISBN 10: 9004325085 / ISBN 13: 9789004325081

Published by BRILL, 2017

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• Title: Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity. Volume II, Changing the World: The Politics of Austro-Marxism (Historical Materialism Book, 138)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004325085
• ISBN 13: 9789004325081
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

During the first half of the twentieth century, Austrian socialist thinkers such as Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, and Max Adler emerged from and helped transform Austrian Social Democracy into one of Europe's best organized and most effective political and social movements. Equipped with extensive introductions that outline the intellectual and political background within which the Austro Marxists worked, these volumes represent the most thorough effort to date to provide a representative sampling in English of the Austro-Marxists' key theoretical ideas and their approaches to politic action. Drawing on their writings from the early twentieth century until the collapse of Austrian Socialism in the 1930s, these volumes illustrate the conceptual richness of Austro-Marxist thought and the enduring challenge that socialists faced then and now in the realization of their hopes.

About the Author

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).