GENIUS ON THE OTHER HAND WHAT WOULD BRUNO KREISKY HAVE SUGGESTED TODAY?

The name of Bruno Kreisky, who would have been one hundred years old in 2011, is associated with a phase of European social democracy in which important Western European societies became more socially just, socio-politically more modern, economically more functional and more emocratic at the same time. Similar reform policies were implemented at this time in Germany under Willy Brandt or in Sweden under Prime Minister Olof Palme. The conference „Ingeniously against it - What would Bruno Kreisky have proposed today?" aims to address the question of whether such a reform offensive is necessary today and whether it would be possible, not least against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis. After all, social justice and economic prosperity are not contradictory; in the long term, one cannot be achieved without the other. But what can a new welfare state capitalism look like? What needs to be done to make the global economy more stable? How can more democracy be brought into our democracy? And who could be the social actors in such a reform movement?

As the Kreisky year draws to a close, the conference aims to look to the future.

In cooperation with the City of Vienna, the Renner Institute and the WIIW