Overthrow

Translation of Freerk Huisken, Uni Bremen Criticism of Bremen's "brain research": Brain determines mind - errors, function and consequences 1 1. The results of Bremen's "brain research" a. The Bremen brain research – associated with the name of the brain researcher Gerhard Roth – takes its starting point from experiences that people constantly encounter in everyday life. Good arguments fail to convince or are not understood; you can explain a matter to children countless times, they still don't grasp it; or they think they have grasped it, but are mistaken. Crystal-clear justifications are not accepted in certain social contexts, even though they are irrefutable; or they are accepted but not acted upon. And time and again, people justify their actions perfectly well, put them into practice, and then find that the desired change in their situation does not occur. All these facts, which revolve around the connection between insight, understanding, learning...

  Translated from Groups Against Capital and Nation Is left-wing radical the same as right-wing radical, or what does the horseshoe model of extremism theory achieve?  Extremism theory didn't originate with the rightward shift brought about by the AfD. Right-wing and left-wing radical political programs and practices are said to be very similar and therefore, in a sense, basically the same. The horseshoe serves as a metaphor for the political spectrum: In the center are the mainstream democrats, and even there a distinction is made between right (e.g., CDU) and left (e.g., Alliance 90/The Greens), whose programs are also close to each other in the image. However, the lines rise so sharply at the extremes that the right and left ends are much closer to each other than the democratic center is to either of these extremes. On the one hand – and this is no secret – extremism theory has simply been a working term used by domestic intelligence agencies since 1974.  Their  ...