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Victor Adler was an Austrian

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 Social Democratic

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 leader.

Born in Prague

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, Adler received a university degree in Vienna

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 in 1881. He founded the Socialist

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 movement in Austria

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 and created the Marxist

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 journals Gleicheit (Equality) in 1886 and Arbeiter-Zeitung

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(Workers' Paper) in 1889. That year he participated in the Hainfelder Parteitag, the conference which took part in Hainfeld

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 to form the Social Democratic Party of Austria

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. As a member of the provincial parliament (from 1905) he played a leading role in the fight for universal suffrage

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Before World War I

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, Adler was a moderate social democrat

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 and leader of the Socialist Party in Vienna

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. He publicly backed the Imperial government's decision to go to war, but had private misgivings. He was the father of Friedrich Adler. He died in Vienna

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