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 Newsletter Nr. 680  
 Amsterdam, October 1st, 2017


THE ANATOMY OF POSTMODERN DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTIVENESS - KNUT K. WIMBERGER

This essay explains that the success of Germany’s far right is not just an anomaly as The Guardian argues, but the result of a postmodernist democratic system which increasingly excludes large parts of the population instead of representing them. I do also look into civil society and social entrepreneurship as the most likely forces for transformation and emphasize the paramount importance of self transformation to catalyze social change; and I do eventually call for an constitutional overhaul of postmodern to an integral democracy.

Late August in Berlin. Political campaign posters at every corner and on every electricity pole. Top candidates stare at and propaganda slogans speak to me. Even though I am not entitled to vote I am intrigued by how political parties market themselves to their customers in one of the Western world’s largest and richest democracies. Strolling through the districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin-Mitte and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf I can’t help but questioning the purpose of contemporary democracy. Erich Fromm’s The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness crosses my mind and I wonder if I should write on The Anatomy of Democratic Destructiveness.

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