The Question of Nationalities and Social DemocracyUntil now, The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy was the only remaining work of classical Marxism not fully translated into English. First published in German in 1907, this seminal text has been cited in countless discussions at nationalism, from the writings of Lenin to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. The issues Bauer addressed almost a century ago still challenge current debates on diversity and minority rights. In this remarkably prophetic text, Bauer foreshadowed current ethnic conflicts in the Balkans and in the former Soviet Union and advocated an early concept of multiculturalism. Attempting to reconcile Marxism with nationalism, Bauer called for a system of self-determination for ethnic communities in which extensive autonomy would be granted within a confederal, multicultural state -- Bauer's words, a "United States of Europe", with remarkable similarities to the contemporary European Union. |
Contents
Foreword | ix |
Introduction for the EnglishReading Audience | xv |
Acknowledgments | xlvii |
Preface to the Second Edition | 5 |
The Nation | 19 |
The NationState 139 | 139 |
The Multinational State | 157 |
The Developmental Tendencies of the National Struggles | 309 |
The Transformation of the Principle of Nationality | 355 |
Capitalist ExpansionismThe Working Class and Capitalist | 393 |
The Program and Tactics of Austrian Social Democracy | 417 |
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The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy Otto Bauer,Ephraim Nimni No preview available - 2000 |
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administrative Austria Austro-Marxism Bauer become Bohemia bourgeois capital capitalist capitalist development century clan class struggle commodity production community of character community of culture community of fate concept constitution cultural community Czech language Czech workers demand democracy districts domination economic emerged empire estates existence exploitation fact feudal forces foreign German Bohemia German Empire German language German workers hand hatred historical nations Hungarian Hungary idea ideology imperial increase individual industrial intelligentsia interaction interests Jewish Jews labor power land Magyar masses means modern movement nation-state national autonomy national character national community national culture national minorities national question national struggle nobility nonhistorical nations organization Otto Bauer parish party peasant petty bourgeoisie Polish political population principle of nationality proletariat propertied classes putting-out system Russian Ruthenians schools Social Democratic socialist society sphere surplus value tariff territorial thereby tion tional trade union Trans unified Vienna wages