Overthrow

The common appeal to "direct experience" that one hears in leftist activist circles acts as if the "direct experiences" themselves are free from theoretical assumptions that shape how one interprets those experiences. What is immediate is supposed to be superior to what is mediated or reflected on. "Lived-experience" is somehow pure because it has supposedly escaped the sin of theoretical reflection (whatever the content of that reflection is), and thus it gets treated as an unquestionable fact. In reality, those who shit on theory in order to theoretically privilege "lived-experience" simply take over the theoretical categories they use without reflection from "common sense". So, despite the reassurance, they are no less in bondage to theory, but rather to the worst, most-vulgar moral theories that pass themselves off as explanations of today's well-known social ills: everywhere bad people with their unconscious bad thoughts, corru...

The following text is an unfinished computer translation from the website of Renate Dillmann, author of the book: www.renatedillmann.de Keyword:  nation Nation is an elementary ideology of the bourgeois state with which the unity of state and people is asserted. The actual  relationship of power - the fact that the state subjugates its society by force, commits it to the validity of property, and thus sets it up as a class society - is reinterpreted into a community founded prior to the state, which the state power  serves and which it serves through the establishment of the national state. Bourgeois states use power and means to subject their society to the validity of property and its increase. They productively manage the contradictions brought into being (–>  classes, welfare state, faux frais ) and work externally to promote the business opportunities of their entrepreneurs in order to initiate economic growth in which they participate. Since the French Revol...