Otto Bauer

Otto Bauer
Foreign Minister of Austria
In office 21 November 1918 – 26 July 1919*
Chancellor	Karl Renner
Preceded by	Victor Adler
Succeeded by	Karl Renner
Personal details
Born	(1881-09-05)5 September 1881 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	4 July 1938(1938-07-04) (aged 56) Paris, France
Political party	Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP)
Alma mater	University of Vienna
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

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

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 Mahnung (1923), p. 83.

Major works

Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie, 1924

• 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? (1936)

See also

• National cultural autonomy

External links

• Speech regarding the crisis of 1929 on YouTube
• Otto Bauer Archive at the Marxists Internet Archive
• Archive of Otto Bauer Papers at the International Institute of Social History
• Benes, Jakub: Bauer, Otto, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
• (in German) Otto Bauer und Die Mühen des Dritten Wegs Die Linke, Michael R. Krätke