The SPÖ in Mein Kampf

At one moment Hitler lauded the Social Democratic Party in his mind (Friedrich Austerlitz, Anton David, Viktor Adler and Wilhelm Ellenbogen are mentioned by their last names on p. 66 of Mein Kampf) for championing "das allgemeine und geheime Wahlrecht" (Mein Kampf, p. 39) or universal suffrage, saying to himself that this must lead to a weakening of Habsburg monarchic rule. When he later saw more of what the party was about however, he suggested its members were disfavoring Germans in an attempt to save the multiethnic melting pot of Austria-Hungary. It appears he was pressured to join the trade union and that men of Jewish heritage were influential in the party (Mein Kampf, pgs. 39, 40, 65 and 66).Mein Kampf, Erster Band, 2. Kapitel