ABSTRACT

Austrian Marxism, except of scientific literature is used in political language at least in two meanings which intersect each other. Firstly Austrian Marxism is understood as marxist theoretical trend, a scientific marxism, represented by Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Victor Adler and Max Adler who were active in Vienna since the beginning of the 20th century and used the methods of Marxism to solve the social problems in old Austria. In this sense “Austrian Marxism” is a movement that appears at the beginning of the 20th century within Austrian social democracy under the influence of the theoretical works and political activity of its leaders and thinkers. Between the two world wars the entire Austrian Social Democratic Party was denominated Austro-Marxist in political literature.