Österreich

I've always been really interested in Austria, think it's a pretty fascinating country, as one of the only Western Global North countries that had some form of stint under socialist control (unfortunately, the Nazis snuffed that out pretty quick just before WWII started, and the Western allies took Austria afterward so socialism wasn't even on the table post war). Karl Marx Hof is one of my favourite buildings.

I saw a lot of discussion of this way back on Reddit /r/communism, where they were claiming all of the communist parties in Austria aren't/are no longer communist/ML, and that there's basically no real communist movement in Austria. A lot of hate for KPÖ and PDA. But, seeing how all the discussions are in English and not German, by mostly non-Austrians, I imagine it suffers from the same information barrier problem that happens every time the English speaking internet tries to talk about what's going on in a non-English speaking country, and clearly /r/communism has a lot of issues with the judgements of the majority userbase, as pointed out here and that got blown wide open with the Russia-Ukraine war.

Since reading those discussions, I've always wanted to know more about communism in modern Austria but never got the chance to. So, any communists actually in Austria, what's the actual state of communist parties and general communist movements over there, from your perspective?

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