"Osvobození z pout hospodářské závislosti" : vztah Sociálně demokratické strany dělnické v Habsburské monarchii k problému svobody

Abstract

Liberty represented a crucial topic for Austrian social democrats of 19th and 20th century, the request for "workers liberation" took the leading position in party political programs and election declarations. But the social-democratic understanding of liberty was highly inspired by Marxism, and it was therefore in some ways different from the understanding of this phenomenon within classical liberalism. Liberty in this case meant not just the acquisition of political rights but primarily escape from economic dependence. Investigation and analysis of social-democratic concepts of freedom and liberty is the main goal of my paper.