Austrian conservatism on the wrong track - from the "Decline of the West" to Black-Blue
Conversation with
Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, former director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance and lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History
Willi Mernyi, Chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria and Federal Managing Director of the Group of Social Democratic Trade Unionists in the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB)
Natascha Strobl, political scientist, mosaik-blog, author of „Die Identitären. Handbook on the youth movement of the New Right“
Moderation
Robert Misik, Author and journalist
Social democracy has always had to defend civil and liberal liberties against a reactionary right. Until today. And to this day, it is not only the hard right that opposes freedom, but also the centre right that is susceptible to discourses of fear.
What authoritarian temptations survived in social democracy and why, for example, did many social democrats switch to the Nazis - out of disappointment or anger?
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