The Red Vienna Sourcebook

805 Pages·2020·25.234 MB·English

by  Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, Ingo Zechner (eds.)

THE RED VIENNA SOURCEBOOK
Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

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Title: The Red Vienna sourcebook / edited by Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, and Ingo Zechner.
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The Red Vienna Sourcebook was made possible by the generous support of the Cultural
Department of the City of Vienna (Stadt Wien Kultur).

Printed with support from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH).
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xxiii
Permissions and Credits xxv
A Note on the Structure of This Book xxix
Introduction 1
Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, and Ingo Zechner
Part I. Foundations
Chapter 1: Constitution, Legislation, and Jurisdiction 15
Vrääth Öhner
1. Hans Kelsen, The Constitution of German Austria (1920) 17
2. Karl Kautsky, Democracy and Democracy (1920) 20
3. Karl Renner, The Free State on the Danube (1922) 22
4. Robert Danneberg, The German-Austrian Financial Constitution (1922) 23
5. Oskar Trebitsch, Jurisdiction and Class Struggle (1923) 25
6. Friedrich Austerlitz, The Murderers of Schattendorf Acquitted! (1927) 27
7. Therese Schlesinger, Criminal Justice and Psychoanalysis (1930) 29

Chapter 2: Finances and Taxes 33
Veronika Duma
1. Robert Danneberg, Finance Politics in the City of Vienna (1921–22) 35

2. Hugo Breitner, Capitalist or Socialist Taxation? Who Should Pay Tax?
The Rich or the Poor? (1926) 37

3. Viktor Kienböck, Foundations of Financial Policy (1927) 39
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4. Anonymous, On the Tax Policy of the City of Vienna (1930) 41
5. Gabriele Proft, No! From the Finance and Budget Board of the National
Council (1931) 42
6. Anonymous, In the Sign of Austerity. Meeting of the Vienna Municipal
Council (1931) 43
7. Otto Bauer, The Budget Restructuring Law: A Speech given on October 9,
1931 by Dr. Otto Bauer before the Delegates of the Postal Union (1931) 44
8. Anonymous, The Financial Demands on Vienna (1933) 46
Chapter 3: Consumption and Entertainment 49
Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah
1. Anton Kuh, The Soda-and-Raspberry Existence (1919) 51
2. Margarete Hilferding, Black Market (1919) 52
3. Ludwig Hirschfeld, The Paper Calf: Valuta Miniatures (1919) 54
4. Julius Klinger, The Holy Every Day (1923) 56
5. György Bálint, Jazz Band (1929) 57
6. Neon, Revue (1929) 59
7. Anonymous, Dance around the World: The GÖC Revue (1929) 61
8. Ernst Fischer, I Am Conducting an Economic Study on Myself (1931) 62
9. Anonymous, The Discovery of the Housewife (1931) 64
Part II. Philosophies

Chapter 4: Empirical Social Research 69

Ingo Zechner
1. Käthe Leichter, The Housing Situation (from How do the Viennese
Homeworkers Live? A Survey on the Working and Living Conditions of 1,000
Viennese Homeworkers) (1928) 71

2. Käthe Leichter, Housework (from This Is How We Live: 1320 Women Workers
in Industry Report about Their Lives) (1932) 73

3. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, On the Career Attitudes of the Young Working Class (1931) 78
Contents  vii
4. Lotte Radermacher, On the Social Psychology of the Popular Education
Centers’ Students (A Survey of 21,749 Course Participants) (1932) 80
5. Marie Jahoda, Life Fulfillment (from Anamneses from the Poorhouse) (1932) 83
6. Marie Jahoda, Meal Plan and Budget (from Marienthal: The Sociography of
an Unemployed Community) (1933) 85
Chapter 5: Logical Empiricism 91
Gernot Waldner
1. Anonymous, Magic and Technology (1931) 93
2. Philipp Frank, On the Intuitive Nature of Physical Theories (1928) 95
3. Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath, The Vienna Circle’s
Scientific Conception of the World (1929) 97
4. Rudolf Carnap, Overcoming Metaphysics through the Logical Analysis of
Language (1931) 99
5. Edgar Zilsel, The Intellectual State of our Time? (1932) 102
6. Otto Neurath, Ideology and Marxism (1931) 106
7. Otto Neurath, Protocol Statements (1932–33) 108
Chapter 6: Austro-Marxism 113
Vrääth Öhner
1. Max Adler, Bourgeois or Social Democracy (1919) 115
2. Karl Renner, What Is Class Struggle? (1919) 117
3. Otto Bauer, The Austrian Revolution (1923) 119

4. Hans Kelsen, Otto Bauer’s Political Theories (1924) 122

5. The Struggle for State Power (from Program of the Social Democratic
Workers’ Party of German Austria, Enacted at the Party Convention at
Linz on November 3, 1926) (1926) 124

6. Leon Trotsky, The Austrian Crisis and Communism (1930) 126
7. Käthe Leichter, The Best Defense (1933) 128
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Chapter 7: Freudo-Marxism and Individual Psychology 133
Rob McFarland, Nicole G. Burgoyne, and Georg Vasold
1. Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1922) 135
2. Wilhelm Reich, Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis (1929) 137
3. Siegfried Bernfeld, Socialism and Psychoanalysis: Basic Ideas from a
Presentation Held at the Society of Socialist Doctors (1926) 139
4. Alfred Adler, The Significance of the Social Feeling for the Development
of Character (1927) 141
5. Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Marxism and Individual Psychology: The Revolutionary
Science (1927) 143
6. Sofie Lazarsfeld, Raised by a Family or Educated by a Community? (1926) 145
7. Karl Bühler, The Will to Form and the Desire for Function in Children’s
Games (1927) 147
Part III. Identities
Chapter 8: Post-Empire 153
Kristin Kopp
1. Anonymous, Inside and Outside our Borders (1918) 155
2. Directive of the Ministry of Education and the Interior and of the Ministry
of Justice in Consultation with the Involved State Ministries on April 18,
1919 Regarding the Implementation of the Law Abolishing Nobility and
Certain Titles and Honors (1919) 156
3. Julius Deutsch, The Property of the Habsburgs (1925) 157
4. Alfred Polgar, Imperial Furniture (1920) 159

5. Anonymous, German Austria: Bankruptcy Asset and Colony (1919) 161
6. Karnute, How Should Carinthia Orient Itself? (1919) 163

7. Friedrich Austerlitz, Abandon Vienna! (1919) 165

8. Anton Kuh, Vienna by the Mountains (1923) 167

9. Otto Bauer, Three Groups in the Anschluss Camp (1927) 169
Contents  ix
Chapter 9: Demography 173
Kristin Kopp and Werner Michael Schwarz
1. Anonymous, New Guidelines for the Ranking of Apartment Applicants (1922) 175
2. Edmund W. Eichler, The Foreigners in Vienna: Of Conspirators, Emigrants,
Dreamers, and Harmless Tradesmen (1924) 177
3. Anonymous, Expulsion of Refugees (1919) 179
4. Bruno Frei, Jewish Suffering in Vienna (1920) 182
5. Anonymous, Foreigners in our Labor Market (1925) 184
6. Anonymous, Czech Provocations in Vienna (1920) 185
7. Anonymous, The Czech School System in Vienna and the German School
System in Czechoslovakia: A Speech by Otto Glöckel (1926) 186
8. Anonymous, German to the Core—with a “Háček” (1931) 187
9. Anonymous, The Persecution of Gypsies in “Red” Vienna (1932) 189
Chapter 10: Jewish Life and Culture 191
Rob McFarland, Nicole G. Burgoyne, and Gabriel Trop
1. Eugen Höflich, Bolshevism, Judaism, and the Future (1919) 194
2. Moshe Silburg, What I Have to Say to You (1920) 196
3. Melech Ravitch, Preface (from Naked Songs) (1921) 197
4. Anitta Müller-Cohen, The Return of the Jewish Woman to Judaism (1923) 200
5. J. L. Benvenisti, Arthur Schnitzler Foretells Jewish Renaissance (1924) 202

6. Felix Salten, New Humans on Ancient Ground: A Trip to Palestine (1925) 203

7. Max Eisler, On the New Spirit of Jewish Architecture (1926) 205
8. Josef Löwenherz, The Cultural Duties of the Viennese Jewish Community
(1928) 207

9. Leo Goldhammer, Weary of Life: A Warning to the Jews (1931) 209