Bruno Kreisky, a Social Democrat From a Different World

Source: Jacobin · Bias: Far Left

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Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s longest-serving chancellor. No other postwar Austrian politician elicits the same amount of reminiscing, stories, myths, and anecdotes. Today, over forty years after his days as chancellor, he looms so large that Kreisky, schau oba! (“Kreisky, look down on us!”) is an ever-popular — and only half-ironic refrain — used to shame […]

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Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s longest-serving chancellor. No other postwar Austrian politician elicits the same amount of reminiscing, stories, myths, and anecdotes. Today, over forty years after his days as chancellor, he looms so large that Kreisky, schau oba! (“Kreisky, look down on us!”) is an ever-popular — and only half-ironic refrain — used to shame […]