GegenStandpunkt English (August 4, 2012)
Von webmaster • Aug. 6th, 2012 • Kategorie: InternationalGegenStandpunkt English (August 4, 2012):
The people: A terrible abstraction (Parts 1 and 2) [Translated from Gegenstandpunkt: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift 1-2006, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich]
What is a people? According to what modern legislators have laid down as binding in practice, a people is nothing more than the totality of a country’s inhabitants whom a state power defines as its members.
Regardless of the natural and social differences and antagonisms between them, these members form a political collective by virtue of being subordinate to one and the same state authority. Being obligated to the same rule and its agenda is the common cause they stand up for as a people. (…)
1. The product and the basis of rule
2. The call for good rule
Forthcoming
3. Democracy and market economy
4. National Identity in the age of ‘globalization’
5. The people today: a terrifying abstraction in its purest form
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/english/the-people.html
cf.:
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/gs/06/1/inh061.htm
http://neoprene.blogsport.de/images/Das_Volk_Eine_furchtbare_Abstraktion_Gegenstandpunkt106.pdf
