FLAMMENDE RØD: OM HÅB, REVOLUTION OG KVINDEKAMP HOS MARIE NIELSEN
In: Temp - tidsskrift for historie, 2020
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The life of the Danish socialist Marie Nielsen (1875-1851), recently the topic of a fine biography by historian Morten Thing, presents us with a remarkable combination of elements and contradictions of modern history, thus providing the historian with a significant case study in the dynamics of social hope, political emotions, political subjectivation, active revolutionary melancholia as well as the intersections of class, gender and sexuality during the first half of the 20th century. The daughter of a small-holder family in Zealand, she rebelled against old rural hierarchies as well as modern bourgeois society at an early age. Before and during the First World War, she was a staunch radical among mostly moderate Danish Social Democrats. In the wake of that war, she broke with Social Democracy and became a prominent figure in the formation of the Communist movement in Denmark, being convicted for her revolutionary statements and fired from her job as a schoolteacher in Copenhagen. Being a persistent revolutionary and a pioneer of working-class feminist organization during the 1920s and 1930s, she turned increasingly critical of Stalinism and became the first prominent Danish sympathizer of the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and, consequently, was expelled from the Communist Party. During her last years, she was less active in politics and held rather pessimistic views of the prospects of reinvigorating a revolutionary workers’ movement, while retaining her basic orientation towards the possibility of social revolution. Thus, her life and politics reveal a rare combination of principled continuity and context-defined innovation.
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FLAMMENDE RØD: OM HÅB, REVOLUTION OG KVINDEKAMP HOS MARIE NIELSEN
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nygaard, Bertel |
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Zeitschrift: | Temp - tidsskrift for historie, 2020 |
Veröffentlichung: | Nyt Selskab for Historie, 2020 |
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