Collectivist ideas result from narcissism of people who have ‘progressively’ detached and ‘emancipated’ themselves from all that has been tried and tested.
The communist leaders who returned to the East Zone from Soviet exile in 1945 to bring socialism to Germany knew from their own experience that the Stalinist system was a murderous one. Nevertheless, they acted as his satraps.
These aren't rebels, they're conformists.
The politicians are not interested in your welfare
The East Germans learned over decades to mistrust their media and to read between the lines. The West Germans never did.
Imagine there’s public radio and television and nobody’s tuning in anymore!
It’s not unusual to find conservative contemporaries who complain that culture has been going downhill since the French Revolution, and then complain about welfare reforms and demand higher social benefits, without being aware of the contradiction or even comedy of this attitude.
Slogans like “Complete the turnaround!” and “Then as now. We are the people” evoke associations with the upheaval of 1989.
The worst visitations often come in the guise of supposed harmlessness.
Merkel’s CDU is no longer the party of Adenauer and Kohl. It’s a chimera.
If everything is relative, drinking becomes dangerous.
Germany is now “largely isolated and hated” again.
German hyper-morality, born as a reaction against the amoral Nazi past, has turned into a turned into a “moral imperialism”.
Editorial for this summer’s double edition of eigentümlich frei
Germany is releasing its neo-totalitarian potential.
Leipzig, of all places, is now the source of a monstrous falsification of history.
What the Western citizens completely misjudged at that time was a furious grievance that had been inflicted on all socialists in East and West by that victory of freedom.
The German ruling class are calling for stripping anyone they consider to be a right-wing ‘extremist’ of their fundamental rights.
Claudio Grass talks to Carlos A. Gebauer, part 2
Some things are so easy that only children can understand them.
Claudio Grass talks to Carlos A. Gebauer, part 1
“Do not call lies truth and do not call truth lies,” says Merkel, whose nose ought to be yards long.
Democracy is a backdrop, consisting of simulations, fictions and self-delusions, behind which decisions are made that the demos neither wants nor has legitimized.
Grace can only be said where there is still a commonly used table.
The key is not to avoid suffering, but to transcend it.
