Juan Posadas

J. Posadas

J. Posadas (* 1912 in Argentina ; † 14 May 1981 in Italy ), also Juan Posadas , is the pseudonym of the Latin American Trotskyist and ufologist Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli . Posadas was the founder and until his death leader of posadism , a current within Trotskyism.

Life

In his youth, Posadas was a professional football player at Club Estudiantes de La Plata . His parents came from the Matera area in Italy. In the 1930s Posadas was a shoemaker and founded the shoemakers and leather workers union in Cordoba (Argentina) . At that time he became a revolutionary socialist and joined first the Socialist Workers' Party and later the Party of Socialist Revolution . In 1941 this joined the Trotskyist Fourth International . When the International split in 1953, Posadas and his followers, known as Posadists, supported Michel Pablo and the International Secretariat of the Fourth International. In 1962 there was a break with the Fourth International and the establishment of its own Posadist Fourth International , which currently includes sections in Belgium, Great Britain, France, Colombia and Brazil. In the Federal Republic of Germany there was a group of Revolutionary Communists (Trotskyists) from around 1969 , which later renamed itself the Posadist Communist Party and whose successor structure was the newspaper Social Reform Now! Published by Paul Schulz (* 1925) . educated. This was last published in 2005.

Posadas became known for his extraordinary approaches. He was of the opinion that the Soviet Union should use its nuclear weapons against the United States, as this would lead to world revolution . Posadas also believed that UFOs came from extraterrestrial communist civilizations. Posadas also alleged that Che Guevara was murdered by Fidel Castro . At times the posadists practiced a personality cult around him, reminiscent of Stalinist models .

Works

• The relationship of mankind to nature, to animals, to the cosmos and socialism. Excerpts from texts between 1968 and 1981. Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-926426-43-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Juan Posadas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Posadist Fourth International ( English, French, Spanish )
• Trots in Space ( English ) Excerpt from "Posadism for beginners"
• Space is the (non) place: Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of theradical imagination ( English )