Page - IX - in Otto Bauer (1881–1938) - Thinker and Politician

Contents IntroductiontotheEnglishEdition xiii Foreword xxv Prof.NorbertLeser Acknowledgements xxxiii Illustrations xxxv 1 OttoBauerandHisTime 1 2 TheMaterialistViewofHistory 45 1 ScientisticMarxism 45 2 HistoriosophicalReflections 63 3 MarxismandEthics 73 3 AContributiontotheTheoryofImperialism 86 1 ImperialismasaNecessaryStageofCapitalism 89 2 TheSocio-PoliticalContextofBauer’sObservationson Imperialism 97 3 TheQuestionofCrises intheCapitalistEconomy 102 3.1 ConjuncturalCrisisandtheTheoryofOvercomingCrises 103 3.2 StructuralCrisisandWaysofOvercomingIt 110 3.3 RationalisationCrisis 113 4 SocialismandtheTheoryof ‘OrganisedCapitalism’ 114 4 TheNationalQuestion 118 1 TheNationandNationalCulture 118 1.1 TheEssenceoftheNationalCharacter 120 1.2 ThePeculiarQualityofNationalConsciousness 123 1.3 ThinkingintheCategoriesofNationalValues 126 1.4 CulturalandNaturalCommunity 128 1.5 TheDeterminantsofModernNation-Forming 134 1.6 TheNationasaRealCommunityofCultureinaFutureState 138 2 TheNationalitiesQuestionintheAustro-HungarianMonarchy 141 2.1 SocialDemocracyandtheNationalQuestion 145 2.2 Bauer’sPositionontheSo-CalledNationalitiesQuestion 150 2.2.1 PositiononNationalConflicts 150 2.2.2 TheProgrammeofNational-CulturalAutonomy 153 2.2.3 RemarksonNationalAssimilation 159 2.3 TheProgrammeoftheLeftandtheDemiseoftheMonarchy 162