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...fact that no reason was given for the action in no way obscures its obvious aim. The Church has succeeded in the elimination of the Communists and hence have no desire to support either Dollfuss or the Nazis, both of whom they agree with. The clerics have waged a long and bitter fight against the steady rise of Marxism, with especial success among the doltish peasantry. As was pointed out by me last week, the Marxian socialist party, long Austria's most powerful party, is now practically dead. The man who did this was Engelbert Dollfuss, the party who made...
...that Marxism has been exorcised, the Catholic Church very cleverly ceases active support of Dollfuss, whose only opponents are the Nazis. Thus they avoid a possible loss of favor, should the Nazis win. The issue is now between Austrian capitalism and Austro-German capitalism. The Church has conclusively proved that its interest was not in Austria, but in capitalist, Austria...
...interested men may witness in Austria variations upon a theme by Hitler. It has come to be accepted as a law of social development that a waning capitalism will attack and destroy evolutionary social democracy. The corpse of the Austrian Socialist Party is being divided between the Dollfuss fascists and the pro-German Nazis. Its press has been silenced, its power is being alienated, and now reports have it that large numbers of its members are going over to the Nazis. It makes no difference whether Dollfuss or the Nazis win; both represent the inevitable triumph of capitalism by violence...
...this material success so softened the socialist movement that by the time Dollfuss, using the Nazis as a bogey, declared a fascist dictatorship, the Socialists had not one revolutionary kick left in them. They did not even attempt a general strike; they merely acquiesced. This was partially due to Dollfuss' cleverness in declaring the dictatorship to stop the Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus...
...Austrian Socialist Party has been reduced from the most powerful party in the country to prostrate nullity and will proceed to disintegrate peacefully, or if necessary, forcefully since Dr. Dollfuss is now in a position to use force. The fact that many of the Socialists in Austria could be so blind as to join the Nazis merely indicates the dazed stupefaction of a working class movement which dreamed a beautiful dream--but suddenly woke up to face the bared teeth of an angered capitalism...