Anti-German

Anti-German is a hostile attitude against Germany and/or the Germans. There is also a ultra-leftwing political movement which calls itself "Anti-German" and is described below.

Anti-Germans are activists and groups coming out of the antifascist Left in Germany that call for a solidarity with Israel based on Marxism. The decisive point in their agenda is that they don't focus on Class War and the Labor Movement, but instead view the international system and its dynamics of development from the angle of the Marxist philosophy of history and the Critical Theory. From this point of view, the European Enlightenment is largely unfinished business. The Anti-Germans presume that any global transformation to communism can only happen with and not against the de-facto forces of the Enlightenment. Thus they reject Anti-imperialism, which they see as the current mainstream inside Marxism. According to the Anti-Germans, Anti-imperialism has nothing to do with the opus of Karl Marx, but instead is similar to Nazism. While Anti-imperialism complains that U.S. foreign policy is interest-driven, the Anti-Germans argue that according to Marx this is the normal way of any policy. The anti-imperialist call for an unselfish policy is said to reflect the slogan "Altruism overrides Egoism" from the NSDAP platform.

The Anti-Germans take the position that Marxism, due to its philosophy of history, always had been the most vociferous political opponent of theocracy and connect to the solidarity of Karl Marx for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The U.S. Civil War against slavery from 1860 to 1865 is quoted as an example of a policy seen as likewise progressive and interest-driven. As they consider the system of nation states an historical interim period between theocracy and communism, they distinguish between nations who defend it against the fallback into theocracy, and others that want to stem the progress into communism. Israel is seen as standing on the frontlines of the clash of political systems between theocracy and democracy. With the war on Iraq, which is seen as a war of liberation not of occupation, the United States of America also had begun to give up their old policy of propping up reactionary tyrants and to recognize theocracy as the main enemy. Germany, on the other hand, is seen as governed by Anti-imperialists, that, under the pretense to have learnt something from Auschwitz, increasingly pursue a policy of regime preservation in anti-Semitic dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. Anti-Germans argue that in Nuclear Age infallacy of politicians must be considered a historical contradiction, and that any failsafe political system on the planet would require abolition of theocracy, and must be based on the separation of political office and religious mandate.

Examples of Anti-Germans are the Marxist quarterly Bahamas or the Anti-German Communists of Berlin. Some Anti-Germans participate in rallies of the Left, but often face vehement protest from their former allies.

External links

• The Head Heeb: A German ideology (http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/025578.html) - a weblog debate on the Anti-Germans
• Initiative Potsdamer Abkommen (http://www.inipa.de/) - "Demilitarizing Germany is the road into new Europe" - Political dissent from Berlin by Leo Bauer
• Matthias Küntzel (http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/) - Matthias Küntzel is a political scientist who says that "anti-Semitism's center of gravity has shifted from Europe to the Arab world"
• Anti-German for Newbies (http://volkerradke.looplab.org/sonderweg-en.html) - Volker Radke provides an comprehensive introduction to the anti-German approach to history
• Bahamas (http://www.redaktion-bahamas.org/) - "Any consistent approach to the anti-German stance cannot avoid to criticize the leftist essentials" (Editorial Nr. 18 - in German language only)
• Asayake Text archive (http://www.asayake.org/against_anti_imperialism.htm) - Anti-German and Middle East-related texts in Englishde:Antideutsche