User:GCarty/Bahamas (magazine)

Bahamas is a magazine three times a year in Berlin appears. It is the flow of so-called Anti-Germans attributed, but now claimed for himself now only, "a critique of ideology" to be. [1]

History
Bahamas was founded in 1992 in Hamburg by the time of the minority faction of the dissolved Communist League educated (KB) Group K you had emerged from the 1990 in the KB out debate about the conduct of emerging. reunification of Germany : While the majority of the flow to form a coalition the left of the East ( PDS ) and a focus on the expected her social opposition to the consequences of the restoration of capitalism, put the minority saw as the alleged marginalization of the left, a radical opposition to German unification, the new nationalism, the resurgence of Racism , anti-Semitism and historical revisionism and the new German great power aspiration than commanded to. In an argument to Knut Mellenthin, a prominent spokesman for the majority, the minority have suggested because of their pessimistic attitude dropouts, but "to the Bahamas to emigrate. " The KB-Minderheit/Gruppe K picked this irony in the naming of their official publications on [2]. Their most prominent member was then the journalist Jürgen Elsässer, who is the author of the neologism is "anti-German".

In the early years set the Bahamas a pluralistic discussion organ of forces of the radical left from different backgrounds with a common focus on opposition to nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism and to trivialize it in parts of the traditional left represents gradually won but forces the upper hand, which in itself the positions of the Freiburg Initiative Socialist Forum oriented and - relying on the critical theory, especially Theodor Adorno - a further distancing from traditional positions of the left and completed now moved into the focus of anti-Semitism. Most of the former KB members then left the office.

For binding the magazine theoretical core, it was charged that the critique of capitalism would only be "emancipated" if its a theoretical insight into the "fetishism" of the capitalist relations of production is based and if the progressive achievements of liberal bourgeois society, namely the emancipation the individual from primitive life forms and collectives, affirms and continues. Fetishised critique of capitalism, which in the sphere of circulation (issues of distributive justice, moral protest against exploitative behavior, pursuit of values ​​of solidarity Communities) is attached, the converse is attacked as "populist" and "anti-Semitic". Germany is considered the epitome of the "ethnic" principle (citizenship based on descent). Acted as a positive alternative model in the Bahamas, first as a republican France, on civil rights rather than founded on a community of descent nation. Above all, the unconditional solidarity with was Israel raised its guiding principle.

The intensification of the conflict in the Middle East led to the Bahamas editors more and more there was a tendency Islamists as " jihadist "enemies of modern civilization and the parallels Islamic thought structures and organizations for fascism and Nazism represent. Resulting finally went an open espousal of the U.S. and its " war on terror ".

The original (Hamburg) Bahamas editors from the former KB admitted that the Left in Germany in particular in the situation of a serious historical defeat nothing left but an existence as a radical and "unpopular" minority without the traditional "in the working class to accept "in" oppressed peoples "and" socialist states "imagined allies to pursue uncompromising opposition capital, nation, racism and so on. In contrast, represents today's (Berlin) editors considered that the essential condition for future "emancipatory" changes the defense of Western civilization - as their primary carrier, the U.S. and Israel are considered - against regressive "anti-Semitic", "nationalist" and "fascist" trends is.

Criticism
Just inside the left the Bahamas is due to their often very sharp rejection of certain forms of criticism of capitalism (including: issues of distributive justice, moral protest against exploitative behavior, pursuit of values ​​of solidarity communities) not very often considered to be part of the political left.

Verfassungsschutz
The Bahamas is of constitutional protection authorities said left-wing extremist spectrum assigned to the Anti-Germans and therefore in the reports mentioned above, such as from North Rhine-Westphalia Constitution Protection [3], Hamburg [4] and Bavaria [5].