Socialist Politics (1954)

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Socialist politics

description German socialist magazine
First edition 1954
attitude December 1966
ISSN (print)

The Socialist Politics (SoPo) was a left-wing socialist magazine that appeared monthly between 1954 and 1966 in Bovenden near Göttingen .

The SoPo was from the entristisch within the SPD working Trotskyist organization IKD initiated and went out of since 1949 published magazine for and against out. The magazine was aimed primarily and thematically at left social democrats and critical trade union activists. The first two editions were entitled Socialist . Authors were u. a. Erich Gerlach , Peter von Oertzen , Georg Jungclas , Theo Pirker , Willy Boepple , Siegfried Braun , Ernest Mandel , Jürgen Seifert and Jakob Moneta . Wolfgang Abendroth wrote for the magazine under a pseudonym . The editorial team criticized the SPD from the left, advocating the neutrality of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Algerian liberation struggle. In December 1966 the SoPo was discontinued in favor of express international .

literature

  • Wolfgang Alles (Ed.): Against the current. Texts by Willy Boepple (1911–1992) . Neuer ISP-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-929008-77-7 , here v. a. Pp. 118-132.
  • Hans Manfred Bock: The difficult third way in socialism. Socialist politics and its social support groups 1954 to 1966 in the spectrum of left-wing socialist magazines . In: Michel Grunewald (Hrsg.): The left intellectual milieu in Germany (1890-1960), its press and its networks . Peter Lang, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-906768-78-3 , pp. 659-688.
  • Gregor Kritidis: Left Socialist Opposition in the Adenauer Era. A contribution to the early history of the Federal Republic of Germany , Offizin-Verlag, Hannover 2008, ISBN 978-3-930345-61-8 , here v. a. Pp. 235-283.
  • Jürgen Seifert: Socialist democracy as a “narrow path”. Cooperation in the editorial team of the journal “Sozialistische Politik” (1955–1961) . In: Jürgen Seifert, Heinz Thörmer, Klaus Wettig (eds.): Social or socialist democracy? Contributions to the history of the left in the Federal Republic . A gift for Peter von Oertzen on his 65th birthday. SP-Verlag, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-924800-56-1 , pp. 21-31.