Antifa, nationalism and democracy
Von webmaster • Okt. 28th, 2012 • Kategorie: AllgemeinFreerk Huisken im (Email-)Interview mit dem „Weekly Worker“, der Zeitung der Communist Party of Great Britain – Provisional Central Committee (CPGB-PCC).
Thema: Antifa, nationalism and democracy
Maciej Zurowski interviews Freerk Huisken – until his recent retirement a lecturer at the University of Bremen – about his new book
(…) The German writer and academic, Freerk Huisken is that rare thing on the German left: a Marxist voice critical of left anti-fascism. In his new book, Der demokratische Schoss ist fruchtbar (‘The democratic womb is fertile’), he argues that the left’s anti-fascist critique is in a poor state and, furthermore, that “democrats of all stripes” are incapable of criticising fascism.[3]
Much as comrade Huisken’s book is refreshingly provocative, I would argue with some of his views. In the course of this email interview, I felt Huisken had a tendency to blur the distinction between democracy under capitalism and fascism, misinterpreting any objective evaluation of the different conditions of class struggle under these two forms of bourgeois rule as apologia for the latter. Then there is his idiosyncratic understanding of ‘democracy’, which, in my view, has more to do with Bordigist and various other left communist interpretations than it does with the actual, radically democratic programme espoused by Marx and Engels. However, I decided to leave further discussion around the dictatorship of the proletariat for another time. (…)
Quelle: Weekly Worker 911 (Thursday April 26 2012)
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„Weekly Worker“ (Wikipedia)
„The paper is well known on the left for its polemical articles, close attention to Marxist theory and the politics of other Marxist groups. It claims an online readership averaging over 20,000 a week[1] but only prints 500 copies per week.“
