Revolutionary socialists of Austria

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Symbol of the revolutionary socialists of Austria

The Austrian Revolutionary Socialists were after the February fighting in 1934 and the banning of the Social Democratic Labor Party (SDAP) from Brno fled to Otto Bauer and the foreign office of the Austrian Social Democrats support recognized (Aloes) as the successor organization of the SDAP and. After the first chairman Manfred Ackermann had been arrested in 1934 and his successor Karl Hans Sailer had been arrested in January 1935 , Joseph Buttinger , District Party Secretary from Carinthia , took over the organization and restructured it into a conspiratorial cadre party. In 1938 Buttinger fled with a small number of RS functionaries ( Podlipnig , Hubeny, Bauer II) to Brussels, where the Revolutionary Socialists and the Austrian Social Democrats' Foreign Office (ALÖS) were merged under Buttinger's leadership to form the Foreign Representation of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES). The foreign leadership of the RS saw the annexation of Austria as a "historical progress" and the struggle for the restoration of Austria's independence as "reactionary" (cf. "Socialist Struggle"). The AVOES saw itself as an organization that, after the collapse of the Hitler regime, was supposed to keep its backs free for an autonomous socialist revolution in Austria and Germany and refused - in order to avoid dependencies - to cooperate with the host countries as well as with other Austrian organizations in exile. In 1945 the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) used the subtitle Social Democrats and Revolutionary Socialists after its re-establishment , which was soon abandoned.

literature

  • Otto Bauer : The illegal party (from the unpublished estate) . La Lutte Socialiste, Paris 1939, ( series of publications on the socialist struggle 1).
  • Erwin Scharf : I mustn't be silent. Three years of politics by the SPÖ party executive - seen from the inside . Self-published, Vienna 1948.
  • Joseph Buttinger : Using Austria as an example. A historical contribution to the crisis of the socialist movement . Verlag für Politik u. Economy, Cologne 1953.
  • Walter Wisshaupt: We'll be back. A History of the Revolutionary Socialists in Austria 1934-1938 . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1967, ( time problems ).
  • Otto Leichter : Between two dictatorships. Austria's Revolutionary Socialists 1934–38 . Europa-Verlag, Vienna et al. 1968.
  • Franz West : The left in the corporate state of Austria. Revolutionary socialists and communists 1934–38 . With a foreword by Karl R. Stadler . Europaverlag, Vienna et al. 1978, ISBN 3-203-50668-8 , ( series of publications by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement 8).
  • Peter Pelinka : Legacy and a new beginning. The Revolutionary Socialists in Austria 1934–38 . Europaverlag, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-203-50795-1 , ( materials on the labor movement 20).

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