League of domineered socialists

The League of Dominant Socialists (BhS) was founded in Vienna in 1920 and was an amalgamation of numerous anarchist associations, associations and groups.

founding

The BhS was founded after the revolution of 1918/1919 by sympathizers around the anarchist Pierre Ramus ; In the 1925 / 1926s it had over 4000 members in more than 60 different local groups and was "the largest anarchist organization in Austria for almost 20 years". At a meeting of the BhS on March 25th and 26th, 1922, guidelines and guiding principles were drawn up and adopted, which represented the direction for future activities and developments; Changes and additions to the guidelines were possible in the future. In Austria, the socialist organization Kinderfreunde was founded in 1920 and the League of Dominant Socialists called on its members to encourage parents and their children to join the organization.

A large number of different associations formed the BhS. Among others were represented: settlement and production subsidies , free association Radical Socialist Students , League of Conscientious Objectors , Art Cultural Association , Confederation of Free Youth , union individual anarchists , union domination loose intellectual workers .

Principles

The basic principle of the BhS was the social lack of domination, which logically means: Abolition of the state and all other forms of rule . The federal government advocated individual freedom in a social society in which economic and probably also political organizations work together on the basis of voluntariness and joint agreements. This philosophy should give the most diverse representatives of a free community the economic and political leeway they need for their domineering society. The League of Dominant Socialists also published a magazine under the title The New Generation and, under the direction of Pierre Ramus, the magazine Knowledge and Liberation .

The federal government had a clear answer to the question of whether non-domination should be introduced with or without violence. Since the anarchists consistently rejected all systems of rule and these are based on violence (coercion), the BhS rejected this aggressive violence and advocated a social revolution. The foundations for this should be education, community and solidarity; no gun violence. Defense against the violence of the rulers or the defense against violence, according to the BhS, does not constitute aggressive violence in the sense of the rulers.

“Every conquest of state power - and this is the epitome of every political revolution - requires violence. We want and strive for the complete annihilation of all power as a political and social center within society. That is why we cannot make use of violence, but have to bring it to a dissolution, which only non-violence can achieve. The political revolution requires violence as its means; the social revolution needs non-violence as its means. The Bund h. S. therefore represents - in absolute contrast to the traditional military method of violence - non-violence to bring about and carry out the social revolution ”(quote from Pierre Ramus).

The anarchists also felt connected to the free thinkers and were an amalgamation of different groups that united a free autonomy .

The new generation

The new generation was an anarcho-syndicalist , anarchist magazine of the Federation of Dominant Socialists (BhS) in Austria , by the anarcho-syndicalists in Graz , and appeared from 1947 to 1949 with a total of 10 issues.

The publisher, publisher and owner was BhS, the responsible editors were Josef Teichmeister and Adolf Pranz. In 1948, the press service of the International Workers' Association (ILO) announced that The New Generation was publishing articles and documents consistent with the aims and objectives of the ILO and revolutionary syndicalism. In the summer of 1949 a proposal was published to distribute the magazine in the German-speaking areas (published in the magazine Befreiung , Mülheim / Ruhr, 1949). This “ all- German-speaking ” organ appeared only once with the number 1, 1950, in Amsterdam. The magazine appeared monthly and published articles by Ernst Toller and Gustav Landauer, among others .

further reading

• Hartmut Rübner, Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . Page 86. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994. ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quote from the foreword ( Memento from August 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) What is and wants the BhS. Retrieved April 16, 2009
2. ↑ Brief information about the magazine Die neue Generation in the database of German-speaking anarchism . As of July 14, 2001. Accessed April 16, 2009