Articles on Germany
“German Unity”; We are not celebrating.
About the enormous suffering that accompanied German
reunification, and how its mistakes still shape Germany today.
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Fascism? For what?
Fascism sought to suppress class antagonism by command and perished in the attempt. Democracy achieves the same through competition, voting rights, and consumption. Trump and the AfD have no need for systemic change.
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Europe’s values and their victims – on deportation
The EU is tightening its deportation policy: “return hubs”, violence and pressure against refugees are not a break with supposedly European values, but the consequence of an order that sorts people by usefulness and sells exclusion as values-based policy.
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On Prisons
On Prisons The punitive system functions as a tool for the ruling class to maintain their status quo. Disobediant workers are criminalized while incarceration fails to provide public safety. This is a guest article by Chris Alfonso, whose Instagram you can find here. We thank him for this fantastic piece. Although abolitionism in the contemporary context is largely associated with anarchism, dismantling carceral infrastructure in order…
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Fascism: A Materialist Analysis of Capitalism’s Decay
The developing fascism of the imperial core is a logical consequence of the falling rate of profit, not “dumb workers”.
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“German unity”; We aren’t celebrating.
On the massive suffering that accompanied German reunification and how its mistakes continue to shape Germany today.
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Teaching values, an educational mission
School leads the subject to voluntarily submit to the demands of the performance-oriented society – as if it were made for their benefit.
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Reluctantly Compassionate
The threats of the European states are empty talk – their rule is in danger.
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Remembering Means Forgetting
Remembrance is only made in ways that serve the interests of the state; the mechanisms that led to the rise of National Socialism remain intact.
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Reign on Vendetta
Why the Palestine movement is such a thorn in the side of the German state and how Berlin simply wants to deport rebellious demonstrators.
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The Myth of Rearmament
Rearmament is not a consequence of the war in Ukraine, but is driven by the arms industry.
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Home Defense? It has to be!
The state can now better restrict fundamental democratic rights in times of crisis, using the Bundeswehr.
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Debt among Debt
About the contradictions of financial capitalism and the incredible absurdity of the debt economy.
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Everyone votes AfD – why?
AfD voters are not stupid; the success of the AfD is logical and can be understood through material conditions.
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“Firewall”-Idealism
About the legitimacy tool “firewall,” and the unclear boundaries between fascism and well-off bourgeois nationalism.
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The Left, despite everything.
Without the Left Party, there is no left-wing voice in the Bundestag. For a coffee with Ferat Koçak.
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The Foreigner’s Contradiction
Fascism needs the hatred of foreigners; the state needs the foreigner.
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The AfD will govern – promised.
Merz as Chancellor means that after him, the AfD will govern – everything remains the same.
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Deportations and Refugees
About the absurdity of deportation, its contradictions and why those in power like to talk about it so much.
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Rackete ignites: Who needs Marx!
Crisis of “The Left”-Party: Liberal-activist milieu doesn’t make it any better.
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Is this fascism now?
On the insubstantiality of the “firewall” idealism between bourgeois and fascist politics.
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The New Planned Economy
Developments in information technology, especially in the form of artificial intelligence, render any argument against the planned economy meaningless.
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Against all those against it.
The Junge Welt remains in the Constitution Protection report, while the fascist Compact is being banned – what this means for press freedom.
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The agony of choice
Plague or cholera – the illusion of choice in capitalism is still far from being ‘democracy’.
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Competition among Intellectuals
The language of many Marxists makes it clear that socialism is not their goal.
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Israel-related Anti-Semitism and the “Staatsräson”
The different forms of Israel-related antisemitism and how they are rooted in the bourgeois treatment of Zionism.
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Nationalism and Military Readiness
How bourgeois nationalism is supposed to make us all militarily capable.
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Rule in Crisis
The illegal ban of the Palestine Congress marks a turning point in the current crisis of the bourgeois state.
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Class Brothers, Comrades-in-Arms
NATO has a birthday. The doctrine of imperialism from the high horse still applies today as it did back then.
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Clover for the Horseshoe
Daniela Klette, former member of the “3rd Generation” of the Red Army Faction, is in custody.
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Reversed Anti-Fascism
Banning the AfD would be like dogs pooping in the kitchen, but you only swat the flies – the shit remains lying there. In recent days, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to protest against the AfD and, in most cases, to support a ban on the AfD.
