Austria's Christian Social Party initially finds strong…
1888 CE to 1899 CE
Nonetheless, the party is unable to hold its desired base among industrial workers in the face of competition from the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei—SDAP).
Founded in 1889 at a unity conference of moderate and radical socialists, the SDAP adheres to a revisionist Marxist program.
The SDAP becomes a political home for many Austrian Jews uncomfortable with the growing anti-Semitism of the German nationalist movement, the other major political current of the time.