{"id":2227,"date":"2019-01-23T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/der-mut-zum-unvollendeten"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:29:43","slug":"the-courage-of-the-unfinished","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/der-mut-zum-unvollendeten","title":{"rendered":"The courage to be unfinished"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lecture by Michael Ludwig, Mayor and Governor of Vienna, on the 108th birthday of Bruno Kreisky<\/h2>\n<p>In Bruno Kreisky's thinking and intentions, \u201ethe courage to leave things unfinished\u201c - as he himself put it - played a major role. This had nothing to do with hesitation or half-heartedness. On the contrary, the courage to leave things unfinished meant that ideologies and social structures were not a self-contained, final system for him and certainly not the final stage of history.<em>\u00a0<\/em>It was a commitment to the new, to gradual reform, a commitment to the verifiability of political decisions in the sense of Karl Popper. And it was a rejection of dogmatic or even totalitarian positions.<br \/>\nEvery political and social system is unfinished and must remain unfinished. Because what people do can also be changed for the better by people. The freedom to do so must not be taken away from them.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2228,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2227","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Der Mut zum Unvollendeten - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/the-courage-of-the-unfinished\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Der Mut zum Unvollendeten - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Festvortrag von Michael Ludwig, B\u00fcrgermeister und Landeshauptmann von Wien, zum 108. 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