Liberal Socialist Party

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The Liberal Socialist Party (LSP) was a Swiss party whose program was based on Silvio Gesell's free economics . It was founded in 1946 as a spin-off from the Swiss free economy movement and was merged into the International Association for Natural Economic Order in 1990 .

history

The history of the Liberal Socialist Party is rooted in the Swiss free economy movement, which began in the second decade of the 20th century. In 1914, Silvio Gesell , the founder of free economics, gave a public lecture in Bern at the invitation of the Damaschkian , reform pedagogue and seminar director Ernst Schneider . On July 4th, 1915, the association Freiland und Freeld - Swiss Confederation was established to create the right to full income from work through land ownership and monetary reform , which in spring 1924 was renamed the Schweizerischer Freiwirtschaftsbund (SFB). The leading figures of the association were the doctor and physicist Theophil Christen and the life reformer and writer Werner Zimmermann . From 1917 the association published its own magazine under the editorial direction of Fritz Schwarz , the titles of which were initially Die Freistatt - magazine for culture and school politics (until 1921), then Der Freieldler (until 1922) and Das Freield: Zeitschrift des Schweizer Freiland-Freileld -Bundes and finally from 1923 to 1940 Die Freiwirtschaftliche Zeitung read. In the 1939 political elections, the SFB succeeded in gaining a seat in the National Council with Hans Konrad Sonderegger in Basel-Landschaft and one to three seats in the Grand Council in some German-speaking cantons.

In 1946 there was a split within the SFB that would last for decades. From it emerged the Free Economic Movement and the Liberal Socialist Party . Leading figures of the Liberal Socialists were Werner Schmid (Zurich) and Friedrich Salzmann (Bern). Schmid was in the Swiss National Council from 1947 to 1951 and (for the Landesring der Independents / LdU) from 1962 to 1971, Salzmann from 1971 to 1978 (also for the LdU). The Liberal Socialists lost their last parliamentary representative in 1976. They then gradually became part of the International Association for Natural Economic Order (Inwo Schweiz, founded in Zurich, 1990). The name of this organization has been since 1990: Initiative for a natural economic order .

literature

  • Liberal Socialist Party: The Freedom Program , 1947
  • E. Gruner: The parties in Switzerland , Bern 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For Schneider's biography see Kaspar Weber: There is a powerful longing going through our time. Reform efforts at the turn of the century and reception of psychoanalysis using the example of Ernst Schneider's biography 1878–1957 , Bern 1999
  2. ^ Lebensreform: Swiss Free Land and Free Money Federation ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on February 14, 2014
  3. ^ Jean-Jacques Bouquet: Liberal Socialist Party. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 4, 2009 , accessed February 14, 2014 .