Mark E. Blum, Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, is a Professor of History at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He published books, monographs and articles on European socialism, including The Austro-Marxists,1890-1918: A Psychobiographical Study (University of Kentucky, 1985).William Smaldone, Ph.D. (1989),SUNY at Binghamton, is Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He published monographs and articles on the history of European socialism, including, most recently, European Socialism: A Concise History with Documents (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013).

• PrefacePART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction PART TWO: OVERVIEW OF AUSTRO-MARXIST THEORETICIANS Max Adler Otto Bauer Karl Renner Friedrich Adler Otto Neurath Rudolf Hilferding PART THREE: THE TRANSLATED THEORETICAL TEXTS OF THE AUSTRO-MARXISTSMax Adler‘The New Concept of Sociation’, in Lehrbuch der Materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung (1930) ‘The Social A Priori’, in The Enigma of Society (1936) ‘The “Given” as Living Consciousness’, in The Enigma of Society (1936) ‘The Activity of Consciousness’, in The Enigma of Society (1936) ‘Social Being and Social Science’, in The Enigma of Society (1936)‘Marxism and Anarchism’, in Die Staatsauffassimg des Marxismus, Marx-Studien, Vol. 4, Part 2, Chapters XV, XVI, XVII, and XVIII (1922) ‘Why We Are Not Understood’, in Die Staatsauffassimg des Marxismus, Marx-Studien, Vol. 4, Part 2, Chapter XIX (1922) ‘Belief as an Epistemological Concept’, in Das Soziologishe in Kants Erkenntniskritik: Ein Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Naturalismus und Kritizismus (1924)‘The Given in Ethics’, in Das Soziologishe in Kants Erkenntniskritik: Ein Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Naturalismus und Kritizismus (1924)Otto Bauer‘The Concept of Nation’, in The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy (1907)‘Remarks on the Question of Nationalities’, Die Neue Zeit, Vol. XXV (1908)‘Marxism and Ethics’, Die Neue Zeit, Vol. XXIII (1906)‘Intervals in History’, Der Kampf, Vol. 3 (1910)‘The Equilibrium of Class Strengths’, Der Kampf, Vol. 17 (1924)‘The Transition from the Capitalist to the Socialist Society’, in Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre (1927–8)Karl Renner(Synopticus), State and Nation: A Constitutional Investigation of the Possible Principles of a Solution and the Juridical Prerequisites of a Law of Nationalities (1899)‘Legal Institutions and Economic Structure’, in The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions [Die Rechtsinstitute des Privatrechts und Ihre Soziale Funktion] (1929 [1904])‘Economic Democracy: The Programme of Economic Self-Help Among the Working Classes’, Der Kampf, Vol. 19 (1926)‘Economic Democracy’, Der Kampf, Vol. 19 (1926)Friedrich Adler‘Friedrich Engels and Natural Science’, Die Neue Zeit, Vol. XXIV (1906–7)‘Why do we need Theories? (originally in Der Kampf, March, 1909)’, in The Renewal of the International [Die Erneuerung der Internationale] (1919)Otto Neurath‘Sociology as Physicalism [Soziologie im Physikalismus]’, in Erkenntnis, Vol. 2 (1931)‘Protocol Statements’ [‘Protokollsätze’], Erkenntnis, Vol. 3 (1932–3)Rudolf Hilferding‘Preface’, Finance Capital, A Study of the Latest Development of Capitalism (1910)‘The Work Community of the Classes?’, Der Kampf, Vol. 8 (1915)BibliographyIndex