The Bahamas is a anti-German magazine, which appears three times annual in Berlin.

One based the Bahamas 1992 in Hamburg by at that time the group of K formed by the minority parliamentary group of the dissolved communist federation (KB). you was come out from the 1990 arguments led in the KB around the behavior for appearing the reunification of Germany: While the majority current on a Zusammengehen with that linking the east (Party of Democratic Socialism) and an adjustment set on the social opposition expected by it against the consequences of the re-establishment of capitalism, the minority regarded in view of to objects the Marginalisierung that a linking in the restaurativen climate of the re-establishment of the German nation a radical opposition against the German unit, the new nationalism, the how/as-those-strong of racingism, Antisemitismus and historical revisionism and new German great power props as required. In an argument Knut Mellenthin, an exposed speaker of the majority, because of its pessimistic stepping out preservation close is to have put to the minority to emigrate but on the Bahamas. The KB minority/group of K took up this ironically in the naming of their publication organ. Their most prominent member was at that time a journalist Native of Alsace, who is considered as an author of the word creation "anti-German".

In the first years the pluralistisches discussion organ of forces radical linking of different origin with common orientation on opposition represented of the Bahamas against nationalism, racingism and Antisemitismus as well as their minimization in parts traditional linking. Gradually however forces won the upper hand, the forum socialist at the positions of the Freiburger initiative oriented themselves and - with reference to the critical theory, in particular Theodor W. Adorno - far going dissociation from traditional positions a that linking carried out and the Antisemitismus for the trick and pivot of their world view made. Most former KB members left the editorship.

To the theoretical core obligatory on the magazine the view was raised that capitalism criticism was "emancipatory" only if you are the basis a theoretical insight into the "Fetischismus" (Marx) of the capitalistic production relationship and if it the progressive achievements of the liberals civil society, i.e. the emancipation of the individual from ways of life and collectives affirms and resumes. Each popular capitalism criticism, which at the circulation sphere (questions of the distribution justice, moral protest against exploitative behavior, props after solidary value communities) sets, is attacked against it as and "anti-Semitic". Germany is considered as epitome of the principle (nationality on the basis of the descent). As positive Gegenmodell functioned in of the Bahamas first the France as republican, on citizen rights instead of nation created on a descending community. Above all however the unconditional solidarity with Israel was raised to the highest principle.

The aggravation of the conflicts in approaching and the middle east led to the fact that the Bahamas editorship turned into more and more to represent Arabs and Muslims as "djihadistische" enemies of the modern civilization and the Islam as fascist. Thus went finally an open for the USA and their "war against the terror".

The original (Hamburg ones) Bahamas editorship from the earlier KB was assumed that that that remained remaining linking straight in Germany in the situation of a heavy historical defeat nothing else, as an existence than radical and "unpopular" minority without traditionally in the "working class", "suppressed peoples" and "socialist states" (the latters were estimated always very critically by the KB) imaginierten allied to accept and compromiseless opposition against capital, nation, to retain racingism etc. In contrast to this the today's (citizens of Berlin) editorship represents the view the fact that the essential condition of future "more emancipatorily" changes the defense of the civilization - when their most important carrier the USA and Israel are regarded - against regressive "anti-Semitic", and "fascist" tendencies is.

The murder at Theo van Gogh by a young Islamic the Bahamas motivated the magazine for a long time well-known for their sharp anti-Islamic attacks to intensify their clay/tone again. In one "in Memoriam Theo van Gogh "overwritten article () expresses itself the editorship not only in all clarity against a multi-cultural society, but writes from "quarters ", into which "white ones "did not set at night the foot any longer. Anti-companynear citizen of Berlin Institut for fascism research and anti-fascist action registered association explains as it:

""‚white ones `still set it in quotation marks, but the skin color intends for the Bahamas nevertheless: "‚White one `= "‚clearing-up `(and is correct "‚wrongly `even), then remains for "‚darkly and dully/mustily `still non--white. (...) With CSU "‚reconnaissance aircraft `Beckstein and the reliability in person, Trittin, deplore them multicolorednesses on the good white German soil. "‚In those quarters `, thus the Bahamas, "‚in those at night many "white ones" the foot any longer do not set `(sic!), feel the non--white already impudently "‚at home `! "

The Bahamas however defends such expressions as necessary Polemiken, which are directed against a left one first, which displace faschistoide and antisemitsche tendencies in Migrantenkulturen. Besides by left side it is frequently criticized that in Van Gogh Article the anti-Semitic expressions Van Goghs did not receive a mention. More differentiated articles maintain a potential and material reversal of the classical white black racingism, furthermore some quarters are fundamentalist coined/shaped and thus reached conditions, in which individuals become because of thinking or other characteristics, especially women and Antiklerikale mentioned, lives and security to fear for would have. The parallel of such fundamentalist coined/shaped quarters too "national released zones ", as they are aimed at by Nazi gangs, is partly drawn.

Protection of the constitution

The Bahamas by protection of the constitution authorities to the spectrum of the anti-Germans one assigns and therefore in the reports one mentions. So for instance of the protection of the constitution North-Rhine/Westphalia or Hamburg.

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