Herman Gorter hergebruikt
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In 1920 an unknown small-business publisher, J.J. Bos, initiated a series of ten pamphlets of which three were never actually released, titled “Het Communisme”, written and translated by the renown Dutch poet Herman Gorter. Conceived between 1904 and 1910, all pamphlets were recycled from 1920 on, financed partly by the recently established Soviet-Union, allowing Dutch workers to educate themselves in communist doctrines for a reasonable price. Just after publication Gorter left the communist party and moved to Germany, while Bos moved around from one leftwing splinter party to the other. However, the pamphlets kept their relevance in new circumstances during the 1930s and 1940s, teaching communist ideology to a patchwork quilt of more or less isolated communists and leftwing activists of all sorts, at the same time connecting them to the heroic revolutionary past of the years 1917–1920, when world revolution still seemed a feasible possibility.
Author: Dennis Bos
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7213176643