Raumism

Raumism (Esperanto: Raŭmismo [rau̯ˈmismo]) is an ideology beginning in 1980 with the Rauma Manifesto, which criticized the goals of the traditional Esperanto movement and defined the Esperanto community as "a stateless diaspora linguistic minority" based on freedom of association. Its name comes from the Finnish town of Rauma, where it was launched.

By doing so, Raumism tried to offer a different vision for Esperanto. Rather than focusing on having governments adopt it as an international communication tool, it suggested that the Esperanto was probably going to remain a minority language and that its culture was worth developing nevertheless.

The main achievement of this paradigm was the acceptance of the Esperanto PEN Centre by PEN International, which was itself a recognition of the literary value of Esperanto.

Literatura Foiro, established in 1970, is the most important Raumist magazine currently active.

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