Franz Barwich

Franz Barwich (* 1878 in Berlin ; † 1955 in Berlin) was an activist of the workers' movement at the time and one of the theorists of anarcho-syndicalism . He wrote numerous writings on anarchism and on the Russian revolutionaries Michail Bakunin and Pjotr ​​Kropotkin and their ideologies. He is the father of the nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich .

Life

During the First World War he was imprisoned for his political activities as a syndicalist and his opposition to the war.

From 1919 to 1924 he was a member of the business commission of the Free Workers' Union of Germany FAUD . In the early 1920s he wrote the programmatic work Die Arbeiterbörsen des Syndikalismus . In Germany, his theory of the reshaping of society was sidelined as a utopia. During the Nazi regime , his group was pushed underground. During the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, some anarchists tried to implement his ideas.

Publications

• This is syndicalism. The labor exchanges of syndicalism. 1st edition Edition AV , Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-936049-38-6 . (Work from 1923)
• Franz Barwich, Rudolf Rocker a . a .: Workers' self-government, councils, syndicalism. 2nd edition Karin Kramer Verlag , Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87956-011-0 .
• The communist construction of syndicalism. MaD-Verlag, Hamburg 1973.
• The communist structure of syndicalism in contrast to party communism and state socialism. The council system from below! F. Kater, Berlin 1920.
• The heresy and lack of science of Marxism. Volkstüml. Editing of the book of the same name by Pierre Ramus . F. Kater, Berlin 1920.

Web links

• Franz Barwich on the website of the Institute for Syndicalism Research (Syfo):
  • Franz Barwich .
  • The heresy and lack of science of Marxism .
  • The communist construction of syndicalism.