Overthrow

Translated from: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/warum-kommen-so-viele-nationalistinnen-auf-antisemitische-urteile-50f50a/ Leftists and liberals are repeatedly astonished and appalled that so many people in the 21st century are still antisemitic. Often, they delve deep into history to explain that antisemitism has somehow always existed – which, incidentally, even if true, wouldn't explain anything. Even then, one would have to explain why it has persisted to this day, unlike, for example, the witch hunts. Antisemites are also frequently pathologized from a sociopsychological perspective, portraying them as deficient beings: social envy, sexual frustration, fear of failure, superego problems, a magical worldview, and so on. And however unsympathetic antisemites usually are, and however many individuals they may have all sorts of flaws – this trivializes the issue considerably. It also obscures how easy the transition is from run-of-the-mill, grassroots nationalism to antisemit...

 Translation from: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/gibt-es-das-deutsche-volk-50f50a/ The question of what constitutes "the people" is not easily answered, because the term "the people" is used differently by both right-wing and all other political parties. Here is a brief attempt to categorize these different facets. First, the state defines whom it treats as its people. Whether or not someone is a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany is determined by its citizenship laws. The state defines who is automatically German, and according to which rules, or who can become German based on specific criteria upon application. These rules are also amended from time to time. Thus, it is clear: the people are a product of state power. They are a group of people whom the state defines through its laws and then claims as its own. Their activities are intended to increase his power. The democratic state implements its program of governance through the rights it grants i...

Rough translation of an article from Groups Against Capital and Nation Original here: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/warum-linke-neuerdings-kriege-einsehen/ Everyone knows that wars waged between states are terrible for the people affected. The cruelty of war is no secret, and yet more and more people are willing to participate in killing on behalf of the state. The German government is preparing the population for new armed conflicts, and most media outlets are supporting it. In recent decades, leftists have tended to oppose the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) and the various military programs of German governments, refusing military service, criticizing the government for its military initiatives, and generally warning against a military resurgence in Germany. Since Russia's war against Ukraine, however, the position of many on the left regarding Germany's military readiness has shifted. Going to war for Germany is now a consideration worth considering, even fo...

  Currently, bourgeois writers are once again preoccupied with an old theme: speculation about an afterlife. While the economy prevents them from even offering the majority of their citizens the usual necessities—namely, a regular working life—the newspapers let people report on those who have "stood with one foot in the afterlife." The enlightenment of the age is reflected in these accounts of the briefly "clinically dead" in such a way that such experiences have made those affected more resilient, because, firstly, they are pleased to have been "given" a second life, and secondly, death has lost its terror for them. Only seemingly contradictory to this is the fact that dying itself has become a problem, and that process at which a person ceases to be a person is discussed as a matter of human dignity. While the everyday demise in conflicts between states and the commonplace breakdown of work life are at best registered as a statistic, the press discusses...

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 ...