Chapter 4: Activism and Speculation: Nazism, Communism, and Existentialism

Abstract

BETWEEN 1910 and 1923, Vienna was the place where many significantmovements were plotted. Some of them became historical, and it is worthwhile to go back and to discuss their origins in terms of my experiences during those years. Nazism, communism, and existentialism had their underground beginnings between 1909 and 1913. In the war years, most political and social movements subsided, subordinated to the war effort, only to explode on the surface between 1919 and 1923.