On August 2, 2024, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion on the question “What were the Antideutsch?” at Humboldt University in Berlin. The speakers were Jan Kalk (Gesellschaft für kritische Bildung), Jan Sander (Platypus), Justus Wertmüller (editor of Bahamas), and Detlef zum Winkel (author). The panel was moderated by Platypus member Marius. An edited transcript follows, which was translated by Platypus members Salim A., Tobias Rochlitz, Johannes Schön, Jack Verschoyle, Tamas Vilaghy, and Therri Wünsch.
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This article was originally published in Bahamas. It is based on the afterword to Jan-Georg Gerber’s Das letzte Gefecht: Die Linke im Kalten Krieg, as well as a talk he gave in January 2024 at the invitation of the Frankfurt Pro-Zionist Left. It has been translated into English by Platypus Affiliated Society member Tamas Vilaghy.
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THE TRIUMPH OF the Right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) in the recent 2024 EU elections and Emmanuel Macron’s subsequent call for snap elections prompted the formation of a coalition of center-and-far-Left parties that vowed to save French democracy from the imminent threat of fascism.
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PERSONALLY, I AM NOT in the business of “condemning” things. I have already alienated my moralist Palestinian and Palestinian-American friends when I said that the 2019 Christchurch Mosque shootings in New Zealand were working-class people killing working-class people.
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ONE COMMON REJOINDER to Marx’s famous declaration in his last thesis on Feuerbach, raised by Heidegger among others, could be stated roughly as follows: to raise the demand of changing the world is to do so based on a philosophical interpretation of how the world ought to be changed. Therefore, Marx’s statement, which appears on its face anti-philosophical, in fact presupposes philosophy.
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