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Eugène Lanti

French Esperantist, socialist, and writer (1879–1947)

Eugène Lanti was a pseudonym of Eugène Aristide Alfred Adam (19 July 1879 in Normandy, France – 17 January 1947 in Mexico), an Esperantist, socialist and writer. He was a founder of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, and a longtime editor of the internationalist socialist magazine Sennaciulo.²

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Born Jul 19, 1879, died Jan 17, 1947.¹

About

Lanti was a critic of Stalinism and the theoretician of a new doctrine, anationalism, which aimed to eliminate the very concept of the nation as a guiding idea of social organisation.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eugène Lanti, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Sennacieca Asocio TutmondaFounder¹²

Career

Occupation: anarchist, communist, translator, furniture maker, opinion journalist, teacher, Esperantist, lexicographer.⁴

Date not recordedFounded Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda³

Known for: La Laborista Esperantismo, For la Neŭtralismon!.⁵

Personal life

BornJul 19, 1879, Néhou^{6 7}
DiedJan 17, 1947, Mexico City^{8 9}
CitizenshipFrance¹⁰
SpouseEllen Kate Limouzin¹¹

Politics

In his youth Lanti had been attracted to anarchism, but in 1920 he abandoned anarchism and became a founding member of the French Communist Party. In 1921 in Prague he was the initiator and de facto leader of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT), a broad-based Esperanto-speaking organisation (containing Communists, Social Democrats and anarchists) which does not organise along national lines.

In 1933 Lanti, wounded by personal attacks and criticisms of his leadership, left his position of president of the Central Committee of SAT, a position he had occupied since the foundation of the organization. He continued, however, to play a role in the organisation chiefly as a writer. In 1935 Lanti founded the independent magazine Herezulo in which he criticised the Soviet regime more forcefully than in Sennaciulo.