Who Makes the Nazis?

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Even in a society with as little social mobility as France, as Didier Eribon’s memoir Retour à Reims (Paris: Fayard, 2009) reminds us. The book, of course, is also marked by the author’s painful sense of estrangement from his social origins, whose denizens are given to homophobia and xenophobia.

Chris Matthews, “The Death of the Middle Class Is Worse than You Think,” Fortune, July 13, 2016 →. The year 2015 saw a break in the trend for the US: Robert Pear, “U.S. Household Income Grew 5.2 Percent in 2015, Breaking Pattern of Stagnation,” New York Times, September 13, 2016 →.

Žižek’s phrase, from The Ticklish Subject (New York: Verso, 1999), 347, became the basis and title of a 2012–13 exhibition by Gregory Sholette and Oliver Ressler.

Merijn Oudenampsen, “On the Autonomy of the Political and the Poverty of Theory,” merijnoudenampsen.org, 2011 →.

In the US, Breitbart News has embraced the European Identitarians as “hipster right-wingers” →.

A whole range of translations can be found at →.

Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab. Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen (Munich: DVA, 2010).

For the role of the Lügenpresse slogan within Pegida’s rhetoric, and in the context of German political history, see Jurek Skrobala, “Vokabular wie bei Goebbels,” Spiegel Online, January 12, 2015 →.

“Lord” Ashcroft, “How the United Kingdom voted on Thursday… and why,” lordashcroftpolls.com, June 24, 2016 →.

The classic instance is Newt Gingrich’s insistence, in a TV interview during the Republican Convention in Cleveland, that feelings trump statistics: the latter may show that crime rates are down, but people’s gut feelings tell them otherwise.

Scans of Subversive Aktion publications from 1962–66 can be found at →.

Habermas used the term “linker Faschismus” at the SDS congress in Hannover on June 9, 1967; later “linker Faschismus” became “Linksfaschismus.” For the debate between Habermas and the radical Left, see Die Linke antwortet Jürgen Habermas, eds. Oskar Negt and Wolfgang Abendroth (Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1968).

Theodor W. Adorno, “Marginalien zu Theorie und Praxis” (1969), in Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft II (Gesammelte Schriften 10.2) (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2003), 760–782 (quotation from p. 776). In his attacks on “actionism,” Adorno here himself uses the impoverished and undialectical notion of “praxis” (as antithetically opposed to “theory”) that he accuses his opponents of employing.

Frank Böckelmann and Herbert Nagel, “Nachwort” (2001), in Subversive Aktion. Der Sinn der Organisation ist ihr Scheitern (s.l.: Verlage Neue Kritik, 2002), 492. Author’s translation.

Frank Böckelmann and Horst Ebner, “Gibt es wenigstens eine einzige Lebensform?,” Tumult, Fall 2015: 6.

On Konservativ-Subversive Aktion and German genealogies of political actionism in general, see Wolfgang Kraushaar, “Die Ethnozentriker, ihre Vordenker und die Deutschen,” Perlentaucher.de, April 4, 2016 →.

Kim Bos, “Donny Boysink vindt zijn ‘uitzwaaipagina’ niet racistisch,” NRC Handelsblad, May 26, 2016 →.

Laurie Penny, “I’m with the Banned,” Medium, July 21, 2016 →.

See, for instance, a typical rant by Eva Herman, a former newscaster turned mainstay of the right-wing conspiracist Kopp Verlag.

The term “Völkerwanderung” evokes the period of Germanic mass migrations that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It is used, for instance, by the AfD in Karlsruhe to raise fears of a new kind of barbaric invasion by refugees.

Alexander Roob, “‘Grandioser Biß’ oder ‘Verdammter Schlag in die Fresse’ ? ---------- Abdul Jossot trifft Charlie Hebdo .... und die FAZ haut daneben,” meltonpriorinstitut.org →.

Cécile Daumas, “Olivier Roy et Gilles Kepel, querelle française sur le jihadisme,” Libération, April 14, 2016 →.

Michael Moore, “5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win,” michaelmoore.com →.

Anton Pannekoek, Workers’ Councils, 1946. Available at marxists.org →.

Among Mark E. Smith’s not universally helpful answers to that question in The Fall song of the same name (on Hex Enduction Hour, 1982) were “bad Tele-V,” “balding smug faggots,” “intellectual half-wits,” and “buffalo lips on toast, smiling.”

Interview with P. F. Thomése, “Kunstenaars zijn de nieuwe asielzoekers,” Ad Valvas, May 15 2013, 16–18 →.

As Walt Kelly’s Pogo put it.

Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times, trans. Andrew Goffey (Lüneburg: Open Humanities Press, Meson Press, 2015), 74.

Ibid., 144.

Ibid., 43–50; Bruno Latour, “Waiting for Gaia: Composing the Common World Through Art and Politics,” bruno-latour.fr, 2011 →.

“‘Festung Europa’ von Gegendemos Begleitet,” May 16, 2016, MDR Sachsen.