Victor Dave

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Victor Dave (ca.1910)

Victor Dave (born February 25, 1845 in Jambes, today a district of Namur , Belgium, † October 31, 1922 in Paris ) was a Belgian journalist and anarchist .

Life

Early life

Victor Dave was the son of the President of the Belgian Court of Auditors and studied in Liège and at the Free University of Brussels . During his studies he came into contact with socialist ideas and took part in the International Congress of Socialist Students in Liège. The following year Dave became a member of the International Workers' Association and from 1869 a member of the General Council. After Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume were expelled from the International at the Hague Congress in 1872, he took sides for the anti-authoritarian part and read a protest note in which he criticized the functioning of the General Council and in particular Karl Marx .

As a result, Victor Dave was active in the anarchist movement and made close friendships with German socialists and anarchists. He was one of the most active members of the Belgian Federation of the International and wrote, among other things, an appeal to farmers and farm workers on their behalf. Dave stayed in Catalonia in June and July 1873 and took part in the cantonal uprising there. In September he took part as a Belgian delegate at the congress of the anti-authoritarian international in Geneva .

Arrest and "fratricidal war"

In 1878 Victor Dave moved to Paris , married there and was expelled from the country two years later because of his political activities. He was a collectivist anarchist and made friends with Johann Most in London . When he was delivering propaganda for Most in 1881 to Germany, he was caught by the police and sentenced to five years in prison for high treason and violation of socialist laws. After serving two and a half years in prison, Dave was released and returned to London.

In London, Victor Dave was one of the main participants in the so-called fratricidal war within the German anarchist movement in exile. Dave and Johann Most attacked the Austrian anarcho-communist Josef Peukert because of his relationships with the alleged police spy Theodor Reuss . In return, Josef Peukert accused Victor Dave of being a police agent and defended Reuss. Reuss later betrayed the German anarchist Johann Neve , who was arrested by the German police and died while in custody. Another attack by Dave was followed by allegations by Peukert, who blamed Dave for the arrest. The fratricidal war had catastrophic effects on the anarchist movement in Germany and, to a lesser extent, the anarchist movement in England. Dave was subsequently expelled from the Communist Workers' Education Association .

Journalistic activity

Victor Dave later worked in the Socialist League and wrote for its organ, the Commonweal . He got to know Max Nettlau and introduced him to the ideas of anarchism. After his entry restriction in France was lifted, Dave returned to Paris. He wrote for L'Humanité and later published the Revue générale de bibliographie française between 1903 and 1904 . He worked as a proofreader for the rest of his life .

After the outbreak of World War I , Victor Dave was a supporter of the Manifesto of Sixteen and signed a reprint of the Manifesto. He died on October 31, 1922 in Paris and is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

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  1. ↑ See on this: Max Nettlau, History of Anarchy . Volume 5
personal data
SURNAME Dave, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian journalist and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Namur , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1922
Place of death Paris