Heidegger on things that appear natural and eternal:

“It simply no longer occurs to us that everything that we have all known for so long, and all too well, could be otherwise” (Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics 56; see also Heidegger, PR 81)

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From the world of science (I) The thing about the transition

If a scientist were to present the following insight as a result of his research: " Water is for washing , faleri and falera, and can also be used for brushing teeth; water is needed by the dear livestock, falera and faleri, and the fire brigade also needs water very much... and Hawaii, the South Sea island, would be a dreary palm brush." While his originality might not be questioned, his academic qualifications would certainly be challenged, and even the greatest exam pressure wouldn't prevent students from considering such material banal or nonsense. This is not the case, however, when the same academic expresses similar views about political parties. "It is the political parties that, against this backdrop, make an election decision with alternatives possible in the first place, and thus the core of a democratic process. The parties influence opinion formation and the emergence of the electorate's will with their political concepts and pronouncements; they ...

Ghost Hunting - On the history of ideas about anti-communism

A rough and dirty translation from an article "Gespensterjagd -- Zur Ideengeschichte des Antikommunismus" from Gruppen Gegen Kapital Und Nation (Groups Against Capital and Nation). Original can be found here: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/gespensterjagd-zur-ideengeschichte-des-antikommunismus/ “A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."“ All the powers of old Europe have united in a holy hunt against this specter,” wrote Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto — and that, contrary to other claims in that work, is a pretty true statement. Hatred and fear of radical change in civil society is as old as its revolutionary implementation itself. At the latest with the French Revolution, which did not operate in a religious disguise like the Dutch and English revolutions, and which was much more radical in its theoretical justification than the American one, the fear of the “Red Terror” arose (before “La Grande, by the way. “Terreur” really started in ...

Habermas' new book: An unusually reactionary political philosophy

When the German news magazine SPIEGEL recently reported on the shattering of Marxism's most tenacious dogma under the heading "Philosophers" in its "Culture" section, it gleefully quoted a rather unusual bourgeois ideologue. According to SPIEGEL, the "important social philosopher" Jürgen Habermas, in an anthropological examination of the transition from ape to human, discovered that humanity is not redeemed, as Marx believed, by marching off to work in the morning, but rather finds its fulfillment in returning home to its family in the evening: "Karl Marx saw work as a blessing, humanity's path to self-redemption, that which makes a person human. Now Habermas comes along and proclaims something that must disturb the left (not SPIEGEL, however): Not work, but family makes a person human." Thus, SPIEGEL was once again able to make use of the back pages of a man from German science whose life's work, which became known and useful in the ...

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