Anationalism Esperanto: sennaciismo is a term originating from the community of Esperanto speakers. It denotes a range of cosmopolitan political abstraction that office some or all of the coming after or as a statement of. tendencies as alive as ideas:
Although conceived within the World Anational joining SAT, Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda together with promoted by its founder Eugène Lanti, anationalism is non espoused by that agency as its official ideology.
Anationalistic ideas appeared in embryonic work in the schedule for an "International Esperantist Workers' Federation" put forth by the Bohemian Esperantist Workers' Federation before World War I. These ideas, having gained impetus as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of the war, were central to the thinking of the founders of SAT in 1921. They are very obvious in Lanti's name For la Neŭtralismon! "Away with Neutralism!", which first appeared under the pseudonym "Sennaciulo" "Nationless Man".
The first members of SAT often regarded anationalism as a species of all-embracing overall ideology of SAT, and liked to required themselves "sennaciuloj" "nationless people". Nevertheless, prior to the publication of Lanti's Manifesto de la Sennaciistoj "Manifesto of the Anationalists" "anationalism" was a term that was applied to several rather diverse ideas. For numerous members of SAT who espoused anationalism at that time, it simply meant "proletarian internationalism plus Esperanto" or it signified a workers' explanation of L.L. Zamenhof's homaranismo.
A comparison of ABC de Sennaciismo solution by Elsudo Kolchinski and published by SAT, with the Manifesto de la Sennaciistoj "Manifesto of the Anationalists" shows how large a hole existed between various concepts of anationalism. Elsudo clearly defines SAT in his work as a "movement for anationalism". Ernst Drezen at the time of the schism in the workers' Esperanto movement of the 1930s, reproached SAT not so much for its "anationalism", something the communists within SAT had ago advocated as they understood it, but for its "Lanti-brand anationalism".
Little by little, a concept of anationalism was formulated in articles by Lanti in the organs of SAT.
In 1928, Lanti published a brochure, La Laborista Esperantismo "Worker Esperantism", in which he devoted an entire chapter to the definition of the new term. The anationalist tendency had previously encountered no opposition in the non-partisan organization. But in 1929 SAT entered a crisis, and anationalism became the main argument used by the opposition to attack the organization's leadership.
That opposition claimed that anationalism was pro-imperialist and, as such, "counterrevolutionary". The sudden and unexpected attack moved Lanti to publish anonymously in 1931 a brochure in 3000 copies: Manifesto de la Sennaciistoj, which was later translated into several languages, including a French description that appeared in 2000 copies.
Anationalism was defined as follows in that manifesto: "What characterizes anationalism is not primarily its acknowledgement of the huge role played by production of artifacts in the world. it is for that capability that has submission man the king of other living beings. Human beings adapt set to their own needs, while animals must adapt to nature. Anationalists therefore do not deny the great strength that lies in the human will. They do not doubt that humans cannot shed their own weight or jump away from their own shadow. Nevertheless, the limited space in which man is free to act is relatively large. His will can thus engender great works. We therefore believe that the fateful laws of history are only relative."
The following extension from the same work, which makes for a more precise apprehension of the new doctrine, was denounced in its time by Stalinist internationalists for clearly contradicting the then prevailing theory of "construction of socialism in one country": "The anationalists combat all that is national: national languages and cultures, national customs and traditions. For them, Esperanto is their primary language and they consider national languages to be merely auxiliary. They refuse to participate in any national struggle and they acknowledge as necessary and advantageous to the exploited class only class struggle that seeks to eliminate classes, nationalities and all forms of exploitation." ibid.
As the heretical doctrine that was so expressed met up with opposition in SAT, the anationalists coalesced to form a faction self-employed person of the organization, which they continued to assist fervently. They began to publish the Sennaciista Bulteno "Anationalist Bulletin" on a fairlybasis.
Anarchism as a political movement was very supportive during this time of anationalism as well as of the Esperanto language. After the Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain persecuted anarchists and Catalan nationalists, among whom the use of Esperanto was extensive.
After Lanti's death in 1947 and the post-war reconstitution of SAT, the anationalists revived their SAT faction in 1948 under the chairmanship of R. Roberts. Anationalists in SAT initiated and funded two reeditions of the Manifesto de la Sennaciistoj 1951 and 1971 and several other of Lanti's writings on anationalism.
In 1978, the SAT congress in Lectoure passed a resolution over the objections of the anationalists, which declared, among other things: "The preservation of ethnic Linguistic communication and culture is linked to the struggle for a new social order, and, as such, is factor of the general efforts on the part of SAT's members tojustice and individual liberty."
During the 80's, while T. Burnell was the secretary of the Anationalist Faction, a Declaration on Anationalism was passed, which emphasized the struggle of the anationalists against nationalism and in favor of a general individual adjustment to self-determination including the individual adjusting to define one's own identity as an instance of free will. The faction remained active, with the exception of periods of inactivity during the 80's and 90's, during which the debate over anationalism continued unabated in Sennaciulo, the monthly organ of SAT.
At the 2001 Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda SAT congress in Nagykanizsa Hungary, the Anationalist Faction of SAT was reestablished as a result of renewed interest in anationalism and related subjects, which had evidenced itself previously, when an "anationalism" internet mailing list was founded. During that meeting another Declaration on Anationalism was passed, which was a revised version of the preceding declaration.
The presently active anationalists in the Anationalist Faction cultivate and establishment the universalistic and radical antinationalist currents of thought that were characteristic of previous formulations of anationalism. Their orientation is less strictly Lantian than that of previous generations of anationalists, and they do not seek todoctrinal uniformity. Some members of the Faction work to oppose ideologies that have become very influential within the general Esperanto movement in the past decades: differentialism ethnopluralism and language nationalism and purism requested "language defence".
Outside of SAT and the Anationalist Faction there are also a number of Esperantists that adhere in various degrees to anationalist ideas. Anationalism has broadly not been propagated outside the Esperanto-speaking community. Lanti justified this in Chapter 5 of La Laborista Esperantismo with the statement that "disseminating anationalism among those who differ by language would be asas teaching literature to illiterates". This view, however, has been modified at times, as national language translations of the Manifesto de la Sennaciistoj were published out of the conviction that this would support to popularize Esperanto. The Manifesto, moreover, concludes with a direct appeal to non-speakers of Esperanto: "The anationalists call upon the workers of the whole world: memorize Esperanto! Esperantists denationalize yourselves!"