RUTHLESS
CRITICISM
“If we have no
business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for
all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at
present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that
it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with
the powers that be.” — Karl Marx
What is democracy?The political form of rule of capitalism
The real existing democracyExercising force, impeccably legitimized
Towards the correct understanding of democracyIdeology and reality
“But that’s undemocratic!”
Criticism that announces its loyalty
Letter: On the criticism of democracy and a response“What is your counter-proposal ...?”
Letter: Democracy and “true democracy”Is the really existing democracy a mistaken deviation from an ideal?
The vote
The vote – the free citizen’s moment of glory
Transforming discontent into commitment to the state
The democratic vote – School of nationalismA permanent program of political education
Elections – Highlight of democracyRule authorized by the ruled
What must be said to the young on the subject of voting, but is all too rarely said
What can be learned from the principle of majority rule?
Letter: Radical leftist voting worries
Does one betray one's anti-statist beliefs by voting?
Politics & politicization
On the manipulation thesisOn the alleged effects of advertising and propaganda
Legal and illegal sleazeThe ridiculous cry about “corruption!”
Conspiracy theories: Dissenting and official opinions on “9/11”
Idealisms of international law and just war
On the upswing of the political culture in times of an economic downturn
State power and powerlessness in times of crisis
How the people are to think about the crisis that they are paying for
Who is to blame? A stupid question!
The contribution of character masks to the freedom of state powerPolitics and personality in democracy
Free speech
The fourth estate: The power of the mediaA tool of the state or protection from the state?
WikiLeaks and the others – rule simply informed awayThe bourgeois public sphere and its modern appendices
The internet vs. the “serious” mediaThe struggle over public opinion
The struggle against the establishment media
and for the establishment of a new oneTrump’s lessons about democracy
Freedom of opinion – Thinking on behalf of the statePermission to be inconsequential
Free speech: It can be had without OrwellPublic criticism is allowed — so shut up!
Free speech – A democratic supreme value
What it is and what you get from it
Much ado about an anti-Muslim movie and a few cartoons
“Free speech & enlightenment vs. fanaticism & religious intolerance”
Language hygiene Anti-critical political correctness
“Your own praxis of publishing contradicts the critique of free speech!” Do critics of free speech forfeit it?
The right to protest
10 theses on the right to demonstrateUndeserving of its good reputation
How protest is democratically permitted so that hardly anything remains of it
The right to demonstrate in practice
“The world in turmoil!”
On the globalized error of the cry for good rule
Fascism
Six theses on democracy and fascism and one conclusionSuccessful and unsuccessful nationalism
Why democrats fail at the criticism of fascism...and can only forbid it
Letter: “Democracy is still better than fascism”A dishonest comparison
The mistake of left-wing anti-fascistsTaking sides with the democratic state against the fascist variant of bourgeois rule
Anti-communism
Communism = Crime!The sham debate over the “Black Book of Communism”
The USA: motherland and model of democracy
The storming of the CapitolThe latest battle in the “fight for the soul of America”
America in election year 2020The culture war between populist lies and democratic hypocrisy
Trump praises the working classWhat a surprise
Nobel Peace Prize for Obama: Energetically setting up a new American world order with “change”The supreme warlord receives the Nobel Peace Prize
The vote – A blank check for state powerOur agitation on the 2007 US elections
Breaking a lance for George W. BushThe stupidity of the demand for good leadership
US Election 2000The somewhat awkward birth of the new US president and the accompanying democratic worries
The president, an independent counsel, Monica, the cigar and the honor of the White HouseAn appraisal of democratic morality
Let’s make the rich richer and the poor poorer – that’s the American dream!Since 1776