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Orto (magazine)

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Orto
EditorMarín Civera
Categories
  • Cultural magazine
  • Anarchist magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderMarín Civera
Founded1932
First issueMarch 1932
Final issueJanuary 1934
CountrySpain
Based inValencia
LanguageSpanish

Orto was a monthly anarchist cultural magazine which was published in Valencia, Spain, between 1932 and 1934. Its subtitle was Revista de documentación social (Spanish: Magazine of social documentation).[1]

History and profile

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Orto was started in Valencia in 1932,[2] and its first issue appeared in March that year.[3] It was founded and edited by Marín Civera.[4] Josep Renau worked as the graphic editor of the magazine.[3][5] Major contributors of Orto included Benjamín Jarnés, Ramón J. Sender, Isaac Puente, Hildegart Rodríguez and Vital Aza.[4][5]

Orto was published on a monthly basis by the Institute of Social History Foundation and supported the Spanish labour movement.[5] The magazine aimed to provide a forum for people with the different working-class ideologies depending on the ideas of syndicalism.[5] Like other publications of the period in the country it also supported the premises of Neo-Malthusian and Eugenics.[2] In terms of economics the magazine adhered to Marxism for which it was criticized.[1] Marín Civera attempted to develop a synthesis of Marxism and anarcho-syndicalism in the magazine.[6]

Orto featured articles on health, science, urbanism, agrarianism, politics, economy, sexuality, art, feminism and social struggles. It also published critical articles on religion.[5]

Orto folded in January 1934 after producing twenty issues.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Javier Paniagua, ed. (2001). Orto (1932-1934): revista de documentación social (in Spanish). Centro Francisco Tomás y Valiente UNED Alzira-Valencia, Fundación Instituto de Historia Social. ISBN 978-84-95484-20-8.
  2. ^ a b Javier Navarro Navarro (2014). "Sexualidad, reproducción y cultura obrera revolucionaria en España: la revista Orto (1932-1934)". Arbor (in Spanish). 190 (769). doi:10.3989/arbor.2014.769n5014.
  3. ^ a b c Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom (2014). Re-imagining the nation: Josep Renau and the politics of culture in Republican Spain, 1931-1919 (PhD thesis). University of London. pp. 69–70.
  4. ^ a b c Richard Cleminson (2003). ""Science and Sympathy" or "Sexual Subversion on a Human Basis"? Anarchists in Spain and the World League for Sexual Reform". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 12 (1): 120. doi:10.1353/sex.2003.0053. JSTOR 3704513.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Orto". ucm.es (in Spanish). 25 May 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  6. ^ Michael Seidman (1990). Workers Against Work. Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0520069152.