Bahamas (magazine)

Bahamas is a German political magazine with a leading role in the Anti-Germans movement. Bahamas is published in Berlin with two or three issues per annum.

Bahamas was founded in 1992 in Hamburg by the minority fraction of the dissolved Communist League (KB), named "group K". It emerged from the 1990s dispute within the KB about the position on the emerging unification of Germany. While KB's majority current merged with the Eastern German Communist Party renamed Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), focussing on social opposition to the consequences of the expected restoration of capitalism, the KB minority expected a renewed German nationalism, the resurgence of racism, anti-Semitism and historical revisionism and new German power ambitions and therefore focussed on radically opposing the German unification.

Their pessimistic outlook led them to ironically suggesting "to emigrate to the Bahamas", in an argument to Knut Mellenthin, a prominent spokesman for the majority. "Bahamas" became the name of their main publication organ.

At that time, the most prominent member was journalist Jürgen Elsässer, who is also regarded as author of the neologism "anti-Germans".

In the first years, Bahamas presented a pluralistic debate organ of forces of the radical left from different backgrounds with a common focus on opposition to nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism and the trivialization of those topics among the traditional far left. Gradually the authors started a tendency towards the positions of Freiburg Initiative Socialist forum - relying on critical theory, especially Theodor W. Adorno. A further distancing from traditional positions of the Left was completed and the magazine's focus today is on anti-Semitism. Most of the former KB members left the magazine.

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