Pros and Cons (magazine)
| Pros and cons
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| description | German socialist magazine |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | November 1949 |
| attitude | October 1954 |
| editor | Otto Schlömer |
| ISSN (print) | 0478-331X |
Pro and contra (PuC) was a left-wing socialist magazine with the subtitle Neither East nor West - an undivided socialist world! Posts currently . It was published monthly (at times also fortnightly) from November 1949 to October 1954 in Berlin . The editor was Otto Schlömer. The follow-up publication was the magazine Sozialistische Politik (SoPo) .
Development, positions
Schlömer, who was originally supposed to spy on the undogmatic left in Berlin for the SED , switched sides when funding failed to come due to insufficient information. Since, according to the former SED central organ New Germany , the Western Allies of the SED policy were interested in weakening, he is funding from the Administration of the French sector in Berlin acquired may have to order from 1949 the magazine PuC issue. The magazine paid fees and had a small permanent workforce who did not know about the source of the money.
From the outset, wrote Trotskyists and council communists for PuC . Willy Huhn played a special role, soon as editor-in-chief . In 1952, again according to Neues Deutschland, the financial support of the occupying power was ended. The magazine articles by Huhn, Leo Kofler and Henry Jacoby , in which criticism of the “conservative-bureaucratic social order of economic managers and their political functionaries” in East and West, would not have met the expectations of the financier according to this assessment.
In the same year Huhn broke with Trotskyism and left the editorial office. The magazine continued to be operated by representatives of the Fourth International on a weak financial basis . Ernest Mandel , whose articles often appeared under a pseudonym, is described as the spiritus rector of the magazine. The last edition appeared in October 1954.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB 010088199
- ↑ Otto Schlömer (born in Lüdenscheid in 1898 ) was expelled from the SED in 1946 because of several embezzlements during his professional activity as head of the economic and nutritional office of a Thuringian city . However, he was later re-accepted into the party. Cf. Michael Kubina: Of utopia, resistance and the cold war. The untimely life of the Berlin councilor communist Alfred Weiland (1906–1978) . Münster 2001, p. 336 f.
- ↑ a b Axel Beger: Just a Brief »Pros and Cons« A look back at the left-wing socialist opposition in the post-war period (III). In: Neues Deutschland , February 7, 2009.
- ↑ Christoph Jünke : Science and Emancipation: Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) . (PDF) accessed on September 27, 2014