Austrian Socialist Party (SDAP)
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In the 1930s, Austrian politics was marked by an experiment in socialism, an attempt by the left wing to institute a socialist utopia in the country as an example to the world. The working class set out to create a distinct working-class culture and a socialist politics at the municipal level in Vienna and other cities. The left-wing politics of Vienna set the tone for much of the 1920s, leading to its own destruction by the growing power of the right wing once Austria was targeted by the Nazis in the 1930s. The socialist experiment in Vienna would attempt to bring massive political and social change to the city, instituting far-reaching programs for the benefit of the poor and working class. Austrian politics proper began with the creation of the First republic in 1919. The political structures of that time would continue into the early 1930s in Austria and in Vienna. The Austrian Socialist Party, or the SDAP, was then the smallest of the three parliamentary blocs, but it received a preeminent role in the postwar provisional government because it was considered to be able to maintain public order in the face of the revolutionary situation created by economic collapse and military defeat in World War I. The SDAP was at the time able to outmaneuver the Communist Party for control and direction of the workers' and soldiers' councils that were created in imitation of the revolutionary government in Russia. The SDAP suppressed the old imperial army
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country as a whole was dominated by the Christian Social Party. For almost two decades, Austria would be split three ways politically and culturally. The Social Democratic party was entrenched in the capital and was firmly aligned against a bourgeois power structure. In Vienna, tensions were seen among the Reds, the Blacks, and the Blues. The Reds were the Marxists, the clerical party was the Blacks (a reference to the black cassocks of the Roman Catholic priests), and the Blues were the Pan-German nationalists (based on their symbol of the blue cornflower). The brown shirts of the Nazis would add another color to the mix in the 1930s (Hofmann 189).
Constitutional reform introduced in 1922 affirmed Social Democratic control of Vienna and gave Vienna the status of a Land, or a semi-autonomous region, so that thereafter the Socialist rulers of the capital wielded the same legal powers as the regional governments of Lower Austria and the other seven territorial units in the federal government. The party used its power to build what would become known as a Red Vienna, a utopian experiment that would draw international attention and create fierce controversy at home (Hofmann 189-190).
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