Red Vienna

The period (1919–1934) when Vienna was governed by the Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Austria, noted for pioneering progressive social welfare policies, municipal housing, public health, and education programs that treated residents as rights-bearers regardless of class. This Austro-Marxist experiment in municipal socialism was ultimately destroyed by fascism in 1934.

Claims that use this term

• Red Vienna treated children as rights-bearers whose futures were not class-predestined
• Red Vienna built a popular welfare state that fascism destroyed
• Early market research funded social-psychological studies in Red Vienna