Vienna they would construct the most beautiful working-class housing in the world, the wealthiest cooperatives, the best-designed swimming pools, the shiniest village halls . . . Dead men piled on dead men. The Weimar Republic is dead, socialist Vienna is dead, Karl Kautsky has just died in exile in Amsterdam, Otto Bauer just died in exile in Paris, ravaged by the sentiment of defeat; the Third International has been shot by a thousand bullets in the back of the neck . .
