Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings: A Political Reader
Erich Mühsam
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 1604860553
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Material objectives, and the domination of people by people is the motivating factor of all oppression, even if economic superiority remains an indispensable means for attaining power. Proof of the priority of the lust for power–compared to the mere lust for enrichment–is the fact that one can always appeal to the national sentiment in times of a weakened power structure or of an alleged insult to “national honor” (which stands for nothing but prestige, control, and authority) and be successful.
Others. And still, I find reflecting on the life around Ascona worthwhile, especially with the future in mind. Not because I can see anything in vegetarianism that human culture could benefit from, nor because I see the certainly encouraging phenomenon that most of the marriages here are not sanctioned by the state or by the church as convincing proof of significant social development. Indeed, I see the fact that those who live in free marriage boast so much about it as a weakness. It appears to.
And the hatemongering journalists! 1. Big German corporation founded in 1890 by the brothers Reinhard Mannesmann (1856–1922) and Max Mannesmann (1857–1915). 2. Mountain range in eastern France, near the German border. 3. Probably a reference to the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike. 4. Georg Ledebour (1850–1947), prominent German social democrat. 5. Gustave Hervé (1871–1944), Victor Griffuelhes (1874–1922), Georges Yvetot (1868–1942), radical French socialists–Hervé later displayed.
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were at the forefront of these upright visionaries, they were the bravest of them throughout the war, and they were the most hated and persecuted by the capitalists and the militarists. Karl Liebknecht was the first German member of parliament to refuse to sanction war credits for the Hohenzollern’s2 murderous system and the first to publicly protest against the crimes violating Belgian neutrality.3 Vilified by the entire nation (there were so few of us who.
Capacities. 1. Literally, “Bloc of Order,” a Bavarian alliance of right-wing forces in the early 1920s. 2. Right-wing forces in Bavaria believed that the politics of the 1921–1922 Bavarian government led by the conservative Hugo Max Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld (1871–1944) was too accommodating to the interests of the central German government in Berlin. 3. Square in central Munich. 4. Oskar von Xylander (1856–1940), influential Bavarian army officer. 5. Munich beer hall frequented by.