{"id":2945,"date":"2015-11-28T22:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T22:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2015-11-27T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T22:29:18","slug":"raumismo-and-civitanismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/raumismo-and-civitanismo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u016dmismo and Civitanismo"},"content":{"rendered":"

In contrast to the concept of finvenkismo<\/b> we discussed in the last blog entry, I’d like to turn our attentions toward another movement within Esperanto, with which you might be familiar: ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b>mismo<\/b>, and one of its offshoots, civitanismo<\/b>. Don’t bother looking for an Esperanto root this time! The term \u201cr<\/b>a<\/b>\u016d<\/b>mismo<\/b>\u201d comes from Rauma, the name of a town in Finland. Consequently, the word itself doesn’t reveal much about what the concept behind it means.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo<\/b>, then? Well, broadly construed, a ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>misto <\/b>is somebody who doesn’t necessarily think that propagation should be the foremost goal of an Esperantist. Where a finvenkisto<\/b> is somebody who wants to spread the Esperanto language to all the corners of the world, and thereby allow the language to be a tool in the employ of all the world’s various cultures, a ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>misto<\/b> contends that Esperanto is<\/i> its own culture. The ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>misto<\/b>j<\/b> believe that Esperanto should be thought of as a diasporic language \u2013 that is, the language of a community that has been scattered across the globe, resulting in a culture that is tied to the spoken language rather than to a specific geographical area. (In this regard, Hebrew, at least up until the founding of Israel, would be an example of a diasporic language.) Looking at Esperanto as its own distinct culture thus gives the ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>misto<\/b>j <\/b>a different mission than the finvenkistoj<\/b>. The latter want to spread Esperanto as far as possible; the former want to cultivate the language and its literature, increasing its heft and influence as one of the world’s many cultures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The notion of ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo <\/b>was first articulated in the 1980s, when the participants in the Youth Esperanto Conference (held in Rauma) composed and signed a manifesto, aptly called \u201cThe Manifest of Rauma.\u201d (You can read the document in its original Esperanto here<\/a>.) Over the years, the meaning of ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo<\/b> as articulated in the manifesto has become a bit cloudier. To some people, ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo<\/b> simply means the use of Esperanto without spreading it (not to be confused with krokodili<\/b>, which has a negative connotation), and does not connote an ideological stance. To others, ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo <\/b>is the continued effort to grant cultural recognition to the Esperanto community. This second, ideologically-inflected version has come to be known as Civitanismo <\/b>(from \u201ccivitano<\/b>,\u201d meaning \u201ccitizen\u201d), the effort to make oneself an Esperanto citizen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is your take on ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo<\/b>? Do you think it’s a worthwhile stance? Do you think it’s inherently a part of Esperanto to begin with? Is the divide between finvenkismo<\/b> and ra<\/b>\u016d<\/b><\/span>mismo <\/b>a false dichotomy? I’d love to hear your opinions in the comments!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In contrast to the concept of finvenkismo we discussed in the last blog entry, I’d like to turn our attentions toward another movement within Esperanto, with which you might be familiar: ra\u016dmismo, and one of its offshoots, civitanismo. Don’t bother looking for an Esperanto root this time! The term \u201cra\u016dmismo\u201d comes from Rauma, the name…<\/p>\n

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