Explore how national identity, class struggle, and political strategy collide in a pivotal work on social democracy. In this thoughtful analysis, Otto Bauer examines how nations, cultures, and political power shape each other within Austria’s socialist movement. The book traces how different social groups—intelligentsia, the rising middle class, and the working class—engage with questions of language, schooling, and national rights, and why these questions matter for building a united socialist movement. - Learn how economic changes and the rise of capitalist production influence national policy and party strategy. - See why language and education become battlegrounds for national pride and political power. - Understand Bauer’s view on organizing a multi-ethnic proletariat and the role of national autonomy within a unified party. - Discover how debates within the labor movement relate to broader questions of democracy, minority rights, and social reform. Ideal for readers of political theory, labor history, and European social democracy who want a clear, historically grounded perspective on national questions in a socialist context.