Frank A. Meyer – column: In the sandbox

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Swiss writer Lucas Berfus, who likes to be photographed as a clear-headed thinker, takes a grim view: the left, to which he himself belongs, faces “a heap of ruins.” He believes that this grim conclusion was caused by the silence of his associates regarding Hamas terror.

Anyone who speaks of “heaps of broken glass” naturally means the intact vessel that now lies in ruins on the ground—the left one.

Simple: has the left ever been the vessel of “liberty, equality and fraternity” as the French Revolution sang about it? Yes, the labor movement of the left parties, especially the Social Democrats, and the trade unions realized revolutionary brotherhood by fighting for the welfare state – and making workers part of the citizens.

Modern, politically framed capitalism is the completion of civil society, an open society in the sense of the democratic thinker Karl Popper – a world whose perfection lies in its incompleteness, in the constant rethinking of what was intended.

Karl Popper calls this mechanism of constant testing and improvement the method of trial and error: political truth exists only for a while – until it is falsified by a new political truth.

Only democracy and the rule of law are true: as a necessary prerequisite for forward-thinking, open thinking – and action. Democracy as a workshop of freedom: this is the political culture of the West.

Is the left still a part of it because they claim it for themselves? History speaks a different language: the communists and left-wing socialists declared their main goal to overcome and even eliminate the “bourgeoisie” – and therefore prevented the creation of a united front with reformist social democracy against fascism and Nazism shortly before Hitler came to power.

To the comrades of Lenin and Stalin, the Social Democrats were viewed as social fascists, enemies rather than friends in the struggle for freedom.

Who is Lucas Berfus’ splinter fighting today? The values ​​of the West that it systematically denigrates: as racist, sexist and colonialist, especially the USA, the great world Satan, whose little Satan is now fighting against the Palestinian-Islamic Hamas: Israel.

The hostile figure of these leftists is the “old white man,” a racist, hateful image of “woke” youth from their fathers and grandfathers. By “awakening” she means political vigilance – above all, a willingness to fight against this old ghost figure.

French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, once a member of the radical left movement of 1968, puts it in these words: “Wokeism is a total doubt in Western culture.”

“It’s like a death cult.”

The current Woke movement is the successor to the now legendary 68s, who elevated themselves to a generation of liberators from the stuffiness and power of their parents. Historian Götz Ali, also living in 1968, comes to a different conclusion: looking back, he sees revolutionaries at work “who wanted to sweep away the republican system from the historical arena.”

The goal of the left has always been an anti-Western society: socialism with a human face then, anti-capitalism with a green conscience today. Not the bourgeois world of values!

Political culture as we know it today is, not least, the historical achievement of the Social Democrats, which they, together with liberals and Christian Democrats, transformed into a natural everyday culture – a constantly advancing process of reform of democracy and rule of law. These original Enlightenment values ​​are now being destroyed again.

Through the awakened children of the children of ’68.

A generation spoiled by wealth struggles with the things they were able to enjoy in their youth: the car that mom and dad drove them to school in; vacation in the south – where mom and dad packed them on the plane; the sleazy luxury that mom and dad opened their wallets for.

The fall of the parents is elevated to an act of global significance: instead of the climate-sinful North, the innocent “global South” should rule – whatever that word “kitsch” means.

Poverty as an excuse: A child’s faith preached by pastors and professors, as well as NGO activists and journalists.

Castles are being built again in Sandbox 68.

Source: Blick