Akratie (magazine)

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Akratie (from the Greek α-κρατία = non-rule) was a German-language magazine for historical anarchism ; published from 1973 to 1981, edited by Heiner Koechlin in Basel .

Acracy
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description anarchist magazine
Area of ​​Expertise historical anarchism ,
language German
publishing company Self-published in Basel
First edition 1973
attitude 1981
editor Heiner Koechlin
ZDB 40613-2

history

Zeitgeist

From 1971 to 1974 , Zeitgeist , an anarchist journal for social progress, free socialism, culture and current affairs , was published bimonthly by Otto Reimers . It was published by the groups of anti-authoritarian free socialists in Laufenburg and Hamburg. The last edition of Zeitgeist , at the end of 1974, published a 216-page publication in which Otto Reimers said goodbye to his readers. This double issue (No. 30/31) was the last to be edited by Reimers.

The predecessor of the magazine Zeitgeist was from 1969 to 1971, also published by Otto Reimers, the paper began anew .

Acracy

In 1973 Heiner Koechlin founded the magazine Akratie in Basel .
In 1975 the two magazines Zeitgeist and Akratie were merged under the title Akratie and edited and distributed by Heiner Koechlin alone. From No. 6 (1976) Otto Reimers in Laufenburg took over the distribution of the "Akratie" in the FRG. Two special editions were published: one in 1974 and one in 1978 with thoughts on current affairs . A total of 15 issues were published, the last in 1981.

The "current series" Sisyphus , edited and written by Heiner Koechlin , which appeared in three episodes from 1982 to 1985, can be seen as a successor .

Goal setting

Akratie magazine had no subtitle. Koechlin's longer lecture Anarchism , printed in No. 2, has a programmatic character. Koechlin gives an outline of the views of the better-known anarchists - remarkable: he does not count Max Stirner among them - and characterizes anarchism as follows: “ Anarchism was and is a decidedly moral movement. It is true that he is always against the existing morality, but never in the name of immorality or amorality, but always in the name of a more humane, honest and moral morality. "Addressing his Catholic audience, he sums up:" With properly understood Christianity, properly understood anarchism, despite all historical hostility, has one thing in common: it is never finished and, as much as it is able to realize in the world, always in confrontation will stay with the world. "Accordingly, he describes Leo Tolstoy as the" most consistent and purest anarchist ". “In short, acracy is human coexistence without any kind of external compulsion. All people who have left a mark, scholars and simple people, lived as if there was no coercion. That's why they left a trail. They lived exemplary. They were wider than what surrounded them and what was permanent, all-encompassing compulsion. This did not exist for them and was unnecessary for them. "

subjects

The principles "Anarchy is freedom without violence" and "The basis of anarchism is tolerance" determined the themes (and the basic attitude) of many contributions in Zeitgeist and Akratie . Akratie dealt with philosophical questions, with the "real existing socialism" in general and with the communist dictatorship in Cuba in particular. Augustin Souchy published an article in No. 4 (1975) on The Cuban Libertarios and the Castro Dictatorship . On the other hand, daily political issues were hardly considered and in some issues not at all. This gave the magazine the impression of a publication by old anarchists, which had no relation to the neo-anarchism of the 68 generation (DadA).

Authors

Bernard Assiniwi, Günter Bartsch , Antonio Birlan, Martin Buber , Christian Bühler, Denis Ehmer, Peter Jokostra, Arnold Künzli, Gustav Landauer , Brigitte Landauer-Hausberger, Fritz Linow, Helga Lutz, Hubert Matos, Erich Mühsam , Franz Oppenheimer , J. Peter Peirats, Otto Reimers (author's seal : OR), José Ribas, Hans Schaub, André Schenker, Augustin Souchy, Simone Weil , Otto Worm, Willi Paul and others.

Web links

Commons : Akratie  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A journal with the same title ( New Beginning ) appeared in Berlin from 1947 to 1955 with the subtitle Blätter Internationaler Sozialisten , edited by Alfred Weiland, Jan Groen (Amsterdam) and Willi Huhn.
  2. ↑ Jochen Knoblauch , Sebastian Seibert: Akratie (1973 to 1981) in the Library of the Free (Contains index of articles and contributions, index of names and subject index. "With a biographical sketch of Heiner Koechlin, by Werner Portmann"). PDF, accessed November 18, 2012
  3. ↑ Heiner Koechlin: Anarchism. In: Akratie, No. 2 (spring 1974), pp. [13] - [33], here [22] (no pagination)
  4. ↑ Heiner Koechlin: Anarchism. In: Akratie, No. 2 (spring 1974), pp. [13] - [33], here [32] (no pagination)
  5. ↑ Heiner Koechlin: Anarchism. In: Akratie, No. 2 (spring 1974), pp. [13] - [33], here [18] (no pagination)
  6. ↑ Quoting from an advertisement by Akratie in Graswurzelrevolution No. 7, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Available online