Raŭmismo

Raumism () is an ideology beginning in 1980 with the ''Rauma Manifesto'', which criticized the goals of the traditional Esperanto movement and defined the Esperantujo, Esperanto community as "a stateless society, stateless diaspora linguistic minority" based on freedom of association.

Rauma Manifesto

The Rauma Manifesto () was ratified in 1980 at the 36th International Youth Congress in Rauma, Finland. It emphasized that official acceptance of the language was not probable and not essential during the 1980s and that it was necessary to have alternative goals. The manifesto emphasized the fact that the Esperanto-speaking community had itself become a culture, worthy of preservation and promotion for its own sake. It states: "We want to spread Esperanto to realize its positive values more and more, bit by bit (...)" "Ni celas disvastigi Esperanton por pli kaj pli, iom post iom realigi ĝiajn pozitivajn valorojn (...)
Manifesto de Raŭmo
§3 "Niaj celoj" (Our goals) – a fact that is not widely known.

See also

* Finvenkismo

References

External links

* http://www.esperantio.net/

Discussion in June 2000 in Bja-listo

Criticism of Raumism

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