On 19.05.22 07:13, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
Felix has called the coalition between the Greens and the conservatives
"weird". I think it is weird only from the perspective of the 20th
century assumptions about what it means to be left and right,
conservative or progressive. These parameters
Here's my two cents worth, as a contribution to the debate; I concur
with most of Alex's description of the German scenario, and would like
to point out two things - but really just as footnotes:
German "Russo-philia" has many names; there were ties between the
monarchies at least since the
On 18.05.22 10:04, Alex Text wrote:
In this context he also speaks of Putinism as a variation of what
Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective has called "fossil fascism"
(while Malm do not consider the case of the Russian Federation at all).
For a review of Malm's book "White Skin, Black
“A ceasefire as soon as possible, A compromise both sides can accept”
Brian and everyone,
The German open letter offers the simple solution to the Ukraine crisis of “A
ceasefire as soon as possible, A compromise both sides can accept,” as if the
road to this were somehow easy to see and
This letter created an enormous amount of discussion in Germany, little
of it productive, imho.
In the most charitable interpretation, the letter reflects an aversion
to militaristic thinking, an version which defined the common-sense in
de-nazified post-war Germany. Remember, the German
Hi Brian,
I think this open letter shows a rift in leftist analysis in
Germany. The more radical-leftist leaning weekly newspapers Jungle
World and Analyse & Kritik have contributed valuable analysis:
Below is a machine translation of the “Open Letter” to Scholz, signed by
over 200,000 German personalities including Alice Schwartzer, Alexander
Kluge and Siegfried Zielinski. The source is here:
https://www.emma.de/artikel/offener-brief-bundeskanzler-scholz-339463
I am curious as to the
