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Die Wiederkehr by Patrick Bahners
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Reading for the 2nd time. Most recently started September 5, 2024.


(In: The Irish Times, Jan 18 2016)




"Harald Schmidt put it in a nutshell in a show on election night in Dessau, eastern Germany: “People are longing for a Grand Coalition,” and he added: “For a coalition between the AfD and CDU.” A joke? No. It would be the obvious answer now.(...)With the “firewall,” the CDU has effectively castrated itself."

In: Germany is Moving to the Right—Why Won’t the Christian Democrats?
Dieter Stein, 7th September 2024
The European Conservative
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Reading Progress

Finished Reading
September 5, 2024 – Started Reading
September 5, 2024 – Shelved
September 5, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read
September 5, 2024 – Shelved as: new-german-nationalism
September 5, 2024 –
page 0
0.0% "Introduction

Nationalism is once again a political force in Germany. The Alternative for Germany party, founded in 2013, was elected to the Bundestag in 2017 on its second attempt."
September 5, 2024 –
page 16
2.97% "If the AfD represented the opposition between East and West Germany even more clearly and, so to speak, irrevocably, sooner or later there would probably be the first AfD-led state government in the East."
September 5, 2024 –
page 21
3.9% "Germany seems to be repeating the fate of the late nation"
September 5, 2024 –
page 26
4.82% "Deep social psychology is a speculative discipline."
September 5, 2024 –
page 39
7.24% "Linguistically, the unthinkability of alliances with Björn Höcke party is clearly marked."
September 5, 2024 –
page 39
7.24% "The Kemmerich election has gone down in historical short-term memory as an experiment that must not be repeated"
September 5, 2024 – Shelved as: 2024-afd-quake
September 5, 2024 –
page 39
7.24% "
( Die Zeit, 5th of September 2024)"
September 6, 2024 –
page 48
8.91% "The new nationalists are chauvinists of the second educational path.

The party's relationship to politics is deeply ambivalent."
September 6, 2024 –
page 51
9.46% "The AfD leadership is a union of fanatics and opportunists. Some top officials, Gauland above all, ..."
September 6, 2024 –
page 51
9.46% "Gauland poses a fascinating puzzle for contemporary historians: he warned about the AfD before he founded it."
September 6, 2024 –
page 59
10.95% "He [Werner Patzelt] informed the readers of the FAZ that on the Pegida Mondays it was mostly “completely normal people” who walked through the Saxon state capital."
September 6, 2024 –
page 59
10.95% "

PEGIDA Rally in Dresden, Fall 2014"
September 6, 2024 –
page 63
11.69% "[Cornelia] Koppetsch called her method “theory-led empathy”"
September 11, 2024 –
page 65
12.06% "They [lawyer Gereon Bollmann...] were dealing with a “planned pandemic”, the “planned use of a viral disease for political purposes”"
September 11, 2024 –
page 68
12.62% "For [Hans-Olaf] Henkel and [Thilo] Sarrazin, the German nation itself is an individual who is being treated badly, the duped craftsman or small saver among the peoples”"
September 11, 2024 –
page 78
14.47% "The new nationalism is a new national liberalism. In the terms of political zoology, one must speak of a chimera, a whim of evolution”"
September 11, 2024 –
page 85
15.77% "The founding father of the social sciences, Max Weber, introduced himself is his inaugural lecture in Freiburg as a programmer of German nationalism"
September 11, 2024 – Shelved as: classical-nationalism-versus-afd-s
September 12, 2024 –
page 94
17.44% "The “Identitarian Movement” is a radical nationalist avant-garde troupe that, like nationalist propagandists of earlier eras, uses contemporary artistic means”"
September 12, 2024 –
page 102
18.92% "This is shown by the campaigns against gender language, which continue chauvinistic efforts to keep the German language pure ..."
September 12, 2024 – Shelved as: linguistic-purism
September 12, 2024 –
page 102
18.92% "“Do we want to ban the German language because the Nazis spoke German?” he asked the judges. “How far should this go?”

IN: The Man Softening the Ground for an Extremist Germany
NYTimes, June 23, 2024.

🤔"
September 12, 2024 –
page 102
18.92% ""He who coins the terms, shapes the language. Whoever shapes language shapes thinking. He who shapes thought, he shapes the political discourse and he who shapes the political discourse dominates politics, regardless of whether he is in the opposition or in the government." (Höcke 2018)"
September 13, 2024 –
page 109
20.22% "The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is monitoring the activities of the AfD on the suspicion that the party’s efforts are directed against the existence of the conditions desired by the Basic Law."
September 18, 2024 –
page 124
23.01% "What exactly do you mean by that? [anti-German politics]

[General Joachim] Wundrak meant a policy against the German people- in the categorical sense: a policy directed not just against individual interests of this people, but against its continued existence”"
September 25, 2024 –
page 136
25.23% "Like Bismarck’s empire, Kohl’s republic was described as saturated."
September 25, 2024 –
page 150
27.83% "By identifying himself as an [Hannah] Arendt reader, Wundrak claimed a place for the AfD within the broad spectrum of the Federal republic mentality."

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