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Henrik Turna e il socialismo
The Socialism of Henrik Tuma

Author(s): Jože Pirjevec
Subject(s): History of ideas, Political history, Government/Political systems, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Sociology of Politics, Politics and Identity
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Socialism; Henrik Tuma; political history; politician; political activity of Henrik Tuma; socialist movement; national idea;

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of his political activity, Henrik Turna opted for the liberal bourgeois policy. Seeking to establish contacts with more radical politicians, he associated for a time with the nationally radical students gathered around the newspaper „Omladina" (Youth). After he had abandoned the idea of founding his own party, he joined, in 1908, the socialist movement. His conception of internationalism, owing to the proximity of the ethnic border a very delicate issue, was not a denial of the national idea. For him internationalism was acknowledging each individual nation full rights. At the beginning of the war, he regarded the decision of the German social democracy as right, but later he started to reject it. He adopted more and more radical standpoints. At theend of the First World War he expected that the proletariat would proclaim a free republic of Trieste.'After the split in Livorno he abandoned political activity.

  • Issue Year: 17/1977
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 75-87
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Italian