politics

Politics play a very important role in my life, alone for personal reasons: I really cannot stand it any longer in this world like it is. Therefore most of what I do is supposed to conduce to a substantial change of the world. The end of this change should in abstract be something like what Marx wrote in the "Kommunistisches Manifest": "Anstelle der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft mit ihren Klassengegensätzen tritt eine Assoziation, worin die freie Entwicklung eines jeden die Bedingung für die freie Entwicklung aller ist" [Instead of the bourgeois society with its antagonism of classes there will come an association, where the free development of every single one is the precondition for the free development off all], not inversely the non-free development of all under the domination of the external end of the accumulation of capital the precondition for the non-free development of any single one.

This is already anticipated in Hegel's program of the will that is free in itself and of it's own, but unfortunately it is not worked out consequently. Nevertheless you can learn much about the requirements of a liberated society by dealing with Hegel's political philosophy, especially if you unlike many leftists of today do not want to fall back to the naive standpoint of immediateness, that wants to realise the "good" bourgeois interest against the "bad" one of the citoyen. In contrast the goal has to be the reasonable mediation of the general and the particular, in which neither the general nor the particular stay what they are.

Much important stuff can be gleaned at paeris.net [ext] (de).

If you are interested in my work, I would be pleased, if you contacted me via mail to: oliver[at]jelinski.org

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