Prosperity for All (magazine)
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| description | Libertarian magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Anarchism , socialism |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Self-published |
| First edition | 1907 |
| attitude | 1914 |
| Frequency of publication | biweekly |
| Sold edition | unknown number of copies |
| editor | Pierre Ramus |
| Web link | Brief information in the DadA |
Prosperity for All was an anarchist magazine. It appeared in Vienna from 1907 to 1914 and was edited by Pierre Ramus .
history
The first issue of the magazine appeared on December 22nd, 1907. It conveyed that both the emancipation of the working population and the goal of a free society have high priority. Prosperity for All (“WfA”) initially appeared every first and third Sunday of the month, later regularly every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. According to the editorial team, the magazine understood itself as being independent of left and right parties. No. 1 had a longer article on the " International of Revolutionary Socialism and Anarchism" from Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Belgium, Romania, France and other countries. This article also appeared in subsequent editions with new information. The editor and responsible editors included Jon. Poddany, Gustav Seitz and Jaroslaw Schebesta. Prosperity for All attached importance to the statement that they resolutely oppose any fragmentation of the labor movement and would not join the Social Democrats because they had become a petty-bourgeois and democratic reform party. The “WfA” presented (in No. 1, December 22, 1907) a conception of the process “Conversion of private property into communal property” in the sense of communist anarchism . The magazine made it clear that the editors, editors and staff were proud to be anarchists and rejected the dictatorship of the proletariat . A domineering society, a free association of communities, depends on the independent acting and thinking of the individual.
Articles published by Maurice Bourguin, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis , Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , Pierre Ramus , Michael Bakunin , Charles Malato, Erich Mühsam , Peter Kropotkin , Josef Peukert , Upton Sinclair , Fritz Brupbacher , among others . The title page of No. 2 (2nd year) from January 17, 1909 was dedicated to the "memory of the anniversary of the Russian Revolution". A first literary supplement with the title "Ohne Herrschaft" appeared in December 1907 and was continued in later editions. Topics were u. a .: "Storm poems and melodies of the international struggle for freedom", "An unknown letter from Tolstoy", "The woman of the future", "On the battlefield", "A war poem against the war", "When Jesus comes again", "The vagabond" . The Austrian public prosecutor's office confiscated two issues of No. 1 of the “WfA”, further confiscations followed. In No. 2 (7th year) of January 28, 1914, the word "Konfisziert" was printed in bold, instead of the relevant article there was a space. Pierre Ramus (pseudonym for Rudolf Grossmann ) was arrested in April 1914 as a well-known anti-militarist on the pretext of espionage .
Prosperity for all was not limited to criticism of the state, society and parties. Cultural publications such as poems, rubrics such as “Letters to our readers”, “Club calendar”, “Events: garden party”, “Excursion of comrades”, “Correspondence”. In the “mailbox” among other things: “Warnings against people who pretended to be anarchists” also determined the appearance of the paper. In “Our Book Table” among other things: memories from Alexander Herzen . No. 1: “Anarchy” by Errico Malatesta was published by the “WfA” brochure publisher .
The following articles were published: “Why we are anarchists”, “ Syndicalism and parliamentarism”, “Official protocol of the International Anti-Militarist Congress (Amsterdam 1907)”, “Basic economic features of communist anarchism”, “Women's suffrage and the liberation of women”, “Individual , State and Society ”,“ From the Diary of a Communard by Élisée Reclus ”,“ Capitalist Socialism ”and others.
The successor to Prosperity for All was Knowledge and Liberation .
The Pierre Ramus Society has existed since 1992 in memory of Fr. Ramus . It publishes the journal Knowledge as the successor journal of Knowledge and Liberation .
further reading
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Max Nettlau (Ed.), History of Anarchy . In collaboration with the IISG (Amsterdam). New edited by Heiner Becker. Library Thélème, Münster 1993, 1st edition, reprint of the Berlin edition, Verlag Der Syndikalist , 1927.
- Volume 5, Anarchists and Syndicalists . Page: 217, 248, 285, 289, 442.
- Hartmut Rübner , Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . About Rudolf Großmann (pseudonym: Pierre Ramus), pages 80, 81, 86, 192, 267, 270, 301. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994, ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anarchist Library & Archive in Vienna ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Digital editions of the seven volumes of Prosperity for All . PDF, 77 MB, 1479 pages. Individual issues can also be viewed. Retrieved February 17, 2011
- ↑ See: Max Nettlau, History of Anarchy , Volume 5
- ↑ See on this: Hartmut Rübner, Die Freie Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands
