[update-2] GegenStandpunkt: English (January 15, 2013)
Von webmaster • Okt. 3rd, 2013 • Kategorie: InternationalGegenStandpunkt: English (January 15, 2013):
The people: A terrible abstraction
[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. (…)
3. Democracy and market economy
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/english/the-people.html#part3
4. National Identity in the age of ‘globalization’
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/english/the-people.html#part4
Update-2:
The people: A terrible abstraction
5. The people today: A terrifying abstraction, unadulterated
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/english/the-people.html#part5
cf:
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/gs/06/1/inh061.htm
