Red Vienna
Social-democratic city government
Red Vienna leans hardest toward Secular, Democracy and Shared.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Vienna became its own federal state and ran its own experiment.
Social Democrats governed through elections until the 1934 civil war.
A culture of workers’ education and free debate.
Internationalist socialism.
Anti-militarist, though with its own party militia.
A multi-ethnic capital of the former empire.
Built 60,000 council flats paid for by luxury taxes.
Strict rent control.
A city government without a trade policy.
Fiercely anticlerical.
Pioneered sex education and campaigned to legalise abortion.
Modernist housing and public health.
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