Alarm (magazine)

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Alarm was an anarchist magazine for, so the subtitle, free socialism and appeared from 1919 (with interruptions due to the ban on publication) to 1930. Topics were communism , socialism, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism .

alarm

description Anarchist magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Socialism ; Individual anarchism
language German
publishing company Petzold; Andresen
First edition 1919
attitude 1930
Frequency of publication Per month
editor Carl Langer; Hamburg
Web link Dada

history

The publication Der Alarm , published by Carl Langer in Hamburg, was at that time, despite the large number of liberal and anarchist magazines, an important newspaper for discussion, propaganda and statements. From 1920 the alarm appeared weekly; monthly from the beginning of 1923 and twice monthly from June 1923. In the politically turbulent years 1918 to 1922, in the alarm no. 4 and no. 23 (1919) a solidarity was expressed between communists, socialists and anarchists with the words: “[...] all you friends of freedom, true freedom "Want to be, stand up fraternally in rank and file and march unanimously against the reaction, against the increasingly impudent capitalism." The terms communist worldview and dictatorship of the proletariat were still understood in issue no common goal of the revolutionary left.

A little over a year later, my mind had changed; Socialism was put in quotation marks and communism was viewed with skepticism. The state communist "dictatorship of the proletariat" was rejected with the slogan Out of the parties (No. 33, 1920). The group of Free Socialists-Anarchists , which is close to the alarm , represented, like the magazine itself, u. a. syndicalist viewpoints. The economic resistance to capitalism should take place in the factories. The publication was banned by the state for four months in 1919. In later editions the weekly published more anarchist articles, including a. by Peter Kropotkin and the worldview of individual anarchism . The equality, not the equality , of all people was rejected, which was in some contradiction to the liberal-communist and z. T. syndicalistic thinking. In the alarm, the anarchist standpoint was based on the rejection of authoritarian parties, as the individual had to submit to them. The consequence was a demarcation from all non-anarchist groups. The initial unity and solidarity of the revolutionary left of various ideologies was split and had devastating consequences for the social, political and economic movements. An initiative in 1920 for a joint gathering of the syndicalist and anarchist groups in Hamburg to bring about a proletarian front had hardly any result. The initiative was no longer mentioned in the alarm .

background

In terms of content, the alarm temporarily pushed itself into a political outsider role by publishing articles that encouraged syndicalism, as well as militarism, state and religion to be combated. He also turned against the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). “The anarchists, too, are our worst opponents and the fight against them is to be waged with the utmost sharpness” (No. 42, 1921). The members excluded from the FAUD were involved in the anarchist free union of Rhineland-Westphalia .

This turn came from the fragmentation of the revolutionary movements. Many groups and organizations now took their own ideological and political lines. The solidarity of the different worldviews that stood at the beginning was dissolved, which became clear in the alarm . Government bans and reprisals probably also contributed. In issues No. 4 (1919) and No. 8.9 (1920) the magazine showed greater sympathy for the revolution in Soviet Russia . Socialism was successfully implemented in European Russia to the benefit of the working population. However, this position did not last long. The actions of the Bolsheviks and their influence on power would be carried out at the expense of other left movements. Ultimately, state communism is the same as state capitalism. With the increasing oppression against left-wing political currents in Russia, a consistent opinion against state communism was represented in the alarm . "In Russia the red terror rules as in other countries the white terror" (No. 34, 1929). In terms of content, the paper was not as dogmatic as it appeared. The local association and the Wasserkante district of Hamburg were able to publish an appeal in the alarm , which among other things said: “Fight on the side of Soviet Russia against international capital, against the German government, against the German bourgeoisie”.

Further magazine editions with the title: Alarm

  • Alarm , anarchist workers newspaper, Austria. Ed .: Franz Blaha; Vienna (No. 1, 1925–?)
  • Alarm , leaflet of the League for Human Rights. Anarchist tendencies. Ed .: League for Human Rights, local chapter Porto Alegre ; Brazil (February 15 to April 29, 1937; 4 issues)
  • Alarm , Dutch anarchist magazine. Edited by Anton Levien Constandse (1922–1926)
  • The Alarm , London (1896)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Alarm magazine . Retrieved May 9, 2009.
  2. ↑ Cf. on this: Hans Manfred Bock: Syndikalismus und Linkskommunismus von 1918–1923.