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soul to retaining the useful part of
the army as intact as possible {.
At that time it required the exer-
else of ones whole personally to
appear before the troops, who were
in open mutiny. Under Secretary of
State DR.. Waihs could tell you a
great deal about what had to be
done at that time, and what could
only be done, because we drew the
Social Democrats towards ourselves,
kept them to our line, and re-
strained them from swinging to the
Left into the camp Of Bolshevism.
"Jodok Fink, is the man who
brought about this great work
of making the Social Democratic
Party useful for the fight against
Bolsheyism and the re-establish
ment of Austria"
Kunschak hereby recognizes the
services rendered by the Social
Democracy in the fight against Boil
shevism with an open-heartedness
which has been hitherto lacking. He
recognizes here that which the So
cial Democracy itself has boosted as
a merit, without, however, having
hitherto found the desired recogni-
ton. His account comedies almost
literally with that given by Otto
Bauer himself
THE government at that time
u918 and 1919 was faced with
the passionate demonstrations of
the returned soldiers, unemployed,
war invalidS, etc, time and again.
1t was faced with the peoples
army filled with the spirit of the
proletarian revolution. And
the government had no means of
authority at its disposal. Armed
power was no instrument against
the proIetarian masses, who were
filled with revolutionary passions.
No bourgeois government
could have carried through such a
task. =. Only Social Democrats
could carry through this task of
uuCAdlHplCu uHIiCulLys
-. Only by struggle within
the Workers and Soldiers Coun-
ellis was the advance of BoIshe-
vism repealed. The clear-sighted
leadership of Friedrich Adler
within the Workers Councils and
of Julius Deutsch and his asso-
ciates in the Soldiers Councils
decided the struggle Otto Bauer:
"The Austrian Revolution" pages
12S- German edition.)
The Austrian working class must
now bear the consequences of this
clear-sighted leadership of the
Social Democracy in the shape of
the clerical-fascist dictatorship of
Dollfuss and Starhemberg.
The Social Democracy laid the
basis for this dictatorship, and not
merely by its strangling of the
Proletarian Revolution. 1t also as
sisted the clerical-fascist dictator
ship by its retention of clericalism.
This side of its activity has been
all too little appreciated hitherto,
although it introduced a policy of
remuneration of democratic institu-
tons even in the years of upheaval.
No Fight for Democracy
Had the Social-Democratic Party
been, at least, a logical democratic
party, it could have carried through
an anti-clerical policy on a parlia-
mentary basis, by means of coali-
ton with the Clerical Pan
Germans. This policy could have
broken the decisive position of the
Catholic Church over questions of
politics, education and marriage,
and could have wrested the peasants
from the influence of Clericalism.
In this way one of the most i'm
portallt. instruments at the disposal
of capitalism for spreading its in
fluence would have been under
mined.
The Christian Socials, who I'M
derstood how to make the Social
Democratic Party useful for the
fight against Bolshevism," also I'M
derstood how to avoid this other
danger.
Concerning this, SeipeI, the most