Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

In society’s perception, the reality of constant psychological mobilization and the tense expectation of global military conflict became a way of life to be reproduced by two generations, for whom fidelity to convictions was always inextricably linked to fear and … Weiterlesen →

Jeremy Morris, Red Threads: What was lost is self-evident to anyone alive today in the Russian Federation: an industrialized workforce with job guarantees and symbolic capital, if poor working conditions. What is preserved is an embedded sense that the rush … Weiterlesen →

I can perhaps make this abjuration of philosophical neutrality in the interest of political liberalism more palatable by referring yet again to the Wittgensteinian analogy between vocabularies and tools. —Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, (New York: Cambridge University Press, … Weiterlesen →

Volodymyr Ishchenko, International Socialism: As for the question of NATO, this is a question not so much of Ukraine’s incorporation into NATO, but of Russia’s exclusion—a point Putin himself emphasises quite often. This is apparent, for example, from recently de-classified … Weiterlesen →

Wolfgang Streeck, Jacobin: »Wir werden«, so Klingbeil in einer offenbar lange vorbereiteten Rede am 25. März, »als Gesellschaft mehr arbeiten müssen«. 😀

Berliner Zeitung: „Das Menschenbild des Grundgesetzes geht im Anschluss an Humanismus, Aufklärung und Liberalismus von mündigen, eigenverantwortlich handelnden Staatsbürgern aus.Diese begegnen einander in analogen und digitalen Foren in einem argumentativ, mitunter auch polemisch ausgetragenen, pluralen Meinungswettstreit. Meinungsfreiheit bedeutet die Freiheit, … Weiterlesen →