Clarté (magazine)

Clarté
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyAnnual
Founded1924
CompanySwedish Clarté League
CountrySweden
Based inStockholm
LanguageSwedish
ISSN0345-2085
OCLC470213787

Clarté (Swedish: Clarity) is a leftist magazine which has been in circulation in Stockholm, Sweden, since 1924 with some interruptions. It is the official media out of the Swedish Clarté League, a non-partisan socialist students' organization. The subtitle of the magazine is Tidskrift för socialistisk kultur (Swedish: Journal of socialist culture).[1]

History and profile

Clarté was established by the Swedish Clarté League in 1924.[2] The goal was to critically examine the social ideas, and social institutions.[3] It was first headquartered in Lund and was moved to Stockholm in 1928.[1] The magazine was temporarily closed down between 1941 and 1944.[4] Clarté was published in Hägersten between 1991 and 1995 and was based in Stockholm from 1995 to 2013.[1] It has been headquartered in Bagarmossen, a district of Stockholm, since 2013.[1]

Clarté is a 68-page annual publication, and its circulation is about 1,100 copies.[3]

Clarté became a Maoist periodical from February 1967 when the Maoists assumed the leadership of Swedish Clarté League[5] and therefore, was one of the Swedish media outlets which contributed to the introduction of Maoism.[6] Shortly after this incident the magazine produced a special issue on the Chinese cultural revolution.[5] During this period argued "[Zionism] was a bourgeois-capitalist reaction against antisemitism, that means it neither can nor wanted to abolish antisemitism to achieve its goal – a capitalist society in Palestine in which Jews constituted the majority."[6] However, its political stance changed over time.[3]

Tomas Gerholm was one of the editors-in-chief of Clarté.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Clarté (Stockholm)". Libris (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Clarté". Stockholms Stadsbibliotek (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Clarté". Tidskrift.nu (in Swedish). 14 July 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Svenska clartéförbundet (1921–)" (in Swedish). Riksarkivet. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  5. ^ a b Perry Johansson (2010). "Mao And The Swedish United Front Against USA". In Zheng Yangwen; Hong Liu; Michael Szonyi (eds.). The Cold War in Asia. The Battle for Hearts and Minds. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 231. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004175372.i-270.46. ISBN 978-90-47-42881-7.
  6. ^ a b Alexander Johansson (2022). People, Class, or People as Class?: The Swedish Left, the Jews, and the state of Israel post-1967 (MA thesis). Uppsala University. p. 18.
  7. ^ Gunnar Olofsson (2016). "A Portrait of the Sociologist as a Young Rebel: Göran Therborn 1941-1981". In Gunnar Olofsson; Sven Hort (eds.). Class, Sex and Revolutions: A Critical Appraisal of Gören Therborn. Lund: Arkiv förlag. p. 35. ISBN 9789179242978.