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Maulwurfsarbeit V 2 associazione delle talpe (Hrsg.): Maulwurfsarbeit V Impressum Bremen 2020 Kontakt associazione delle talpe c/o Infoladen St. Pauli-Str. 10-12 28203 Bremen talpe.org [email protected] 3 MAULWURFSARBEIT V INHALTSVERZEICHNIS MORITZ ZEILER/SIMON DIETZ: Zur Einleitung .................................................................................................................................... 6 ANDREAS PEHAM: Parteimarxismus und Antisemitismus vor Auschwitz ........................................................................... 8 FRANZISKA KRAH: Die Bibel der Antisemiten. Zur Rezeption und Aktualität der ›Protokolle der Weisen von Zion‹ ............................................ 13 MARTIN CÜPPERS: Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. NS-Arabienpolitik und Propaganda 1933-1945 ........................ 22 INGO ELBE: Angst vor der Freiheit. Ist Sartres Existentialismus eine geeignete Grundlage für die Antisemitismustheorie? .............. 31 ALEX CARSTIUC: Léon Poliakov – Den Holocaust persönlich nehmen ........................................................................ 43 PETER BIERL: Wie Menschen zur Schnecke gemacht werden – Zur Kritik des Sozialdarwinismus .................. 51 PETER BIERL: Fremde Herrschaft – Zu Geschichte, Gegenwart und Attraktivität von Verschwörungstheorien ............................... 62 THOMAS EBERMANN: Linke Heimatliebe. Eine Entwurzelung ........................................................................................ 71 THORSTEN MENSE: Wo die deutsche Seele wurzelt. Über den neuen deutschen Heimatboom, völkische Kontinuitäten und warum links immer noch da ist, wo keine Heimat ist ................ 79 KLAUS BITTERMANN: Eike Geisel – Some of my best friends are German .................................................................... 86 KLAUS BITTERMANN: Wolfgang Pohrt – Intellektueller Unruhestifter ............................................................................. 90 4 KARINA KORECKY: Über Gebärfähigkeit. Zur Naturgeschichte einer Imagination des Weiblichen ...................... 94 BARBARA UMRATH: Kritische Teorie und Geschlecht. Ansätze einer materialistisch-feministischen Gesellschaftsanalyse .......................................... 109 ANITA FISCHER: Von geschlechtlicher Arbeitsteilung über Geschlecht zum Staat Eine geschlechtertheoretische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Staat bei Nicos Poulantzas ..... 119 MICHAEL HEINRICH: 150 Jahre „Kapital“ – und kein Ende. Unsystematische Anmerkungen zu einer unendlichen Geschichte ........................................ 127 VALERIA BRUSCHI: Marx und gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse. Einige Anmerkungen zur ökologischen Frage in Marx` Kritik der politischen Ökonomie ... 134 FABIAN KETTNER: Das Verhältnis des Teoretikers zur Bewegung. Eine Fallstudie: John Holloway ................. 142 ASSOCIAZIONE DELLE TALPE: Veranstaltungschronik .................................................................................................................. 150 5 Moritz Zeiler / Simon Dietz Zur Einleitung „Geduld und Ironie sind die Wafen, die wichtig sind, um zu Auch bei der aktuellen Maulwurfsarbeit V teilen wir, wie schon überwintern. Denn es geht in der heutigen Situation um eine Art bei unseren früheren Textsammlungen, nicht alle Positionen Überwinterung, und dafür braucht man unbedingt eine Über- der Autor*innen, halten sie jedoch ausnahmslos für wichtige winterungsstrategie. Wer die Emanzipation will, muß einfach Diskussionsanregungen. Wie unsere Veranstaltungen verste- damit rechnen, daß er eine längere Zeit im Winter zu leben und hen wir diese Publikation als eine Einladung zur Debatte und in diesem Winter das Prinzip Hofnung aufrechtzuerhalten hat. freuen uns über Kommentare. Denn das Prinzip Hofnung liegt in der Natur der Sache. Es ist Die ersten Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Geschichte und bekannt, daß nach einem harten Winter ein Frühling kommt. Teorie des Antisemitismus. Andreas Peham widmet sich in sei- (…) Gemeint ist der alte Maulwurf, der unterirdisch gräbt. Das nem Beitrag Parteimarxismus und Antisemitismus vor Auschwitz gehört zum überwintern. Denn was eine emanzipatorische Be- der Auseinandersetzung mit Antisemitismus in der sozialde- wegung in einer Gesellschaft machen soll, die so verkrustet ist mokratischen und kommunistischen Linken vor dem Natio- wie die kapitalistische, ist in der Tat Maulwurfsarbeit. Nicht nalsozialismus. Dabei behandelt Peham antisemitische Ten- im Sinne der Geheimdienste, sondern im Sinne von Hegel und denzen in der Linken und konstatiert angesichts der fehlenden Marx.“1 beziehungsweise meist problematischen Reaktionen darauf ein historisches Scheitern der verschiedenen linken Parteien an ihren Maulwurfsarbeit V dokumentiert wie schon die bisherigen Text- emanzipatorischen Idealen. Franziska Krah stellt in ihrem Text sammlungen Staatsfragen und Maulwurfsarbeit I-IV das Veran- Die Bibel der Antisemiten. Zur Rezeption und Aktualität der ›Proto- staltungsprogramm von associazione delle talpe aus den letzten kolle der Weisen von Zion‹ eine der bedeutendsten Schriften antise- Jahren. Unsere Überlegungen zu Programm und Publikationen mitischer Verschwörungstheorien vor. Krah gibt einen Überblick haben wir bereits in den Vorworten von Maulwurfsarbeit I und zu der historischen Verbreitung, der Attraktivität und andau- II skizziert.2 Daran hat sich wenig geändert. Angesichts immer ernden Aktualität des Buches. Ein weiterer historischer Beitrag wiederkehrender Krisen hat eine kritische Auseinandersetzung folgt von Martin Cüppers. In Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. NS- mit den herrschenden ökonomischen Verhältnissen und ihren Arabienpolitik und Propaganda 1933-1945 thematisiert Cüppers destruktiven Folgen für Mensch und Natur nichts an Aktu- die nationalsozialistischen Bündnisbestrebungen im arabischen alität verloren. Ebenso wird es reaktionären Ideologien wohl Raum. Anhand umfangreichen Quellenmaterials illustriert er weiterhin nicht an Popularität mangeln. Die Attraktivität auto- die antisemitische Propaganda und Vernichtungspläne der Na- ritären Krisenmanagements von oben und die weitverbreiteten zis gegenüber der dortigen jüdischen Bevölkerung. Ingo Elbe autoritären Sehnsüchte von unten bedeuten ein Überwintern diskutiert in seinem Text Angst vor der Freiheit. Ist Sartres Exis- auf weitere unabsehbare Zeit für Alle, die an gesellschaftlicher tentialismus eine geeignete Grundlage für die Antisemitismustheorie? Emanzipation im Sinne der Überwindung von Zwangsverhält- die Überlegungen des französischen Philosophen Jean-Paul Sartre nissen interessiert sind. Die Bereitstellung kritischen Wissens, zum modernen Antisemitismus. Abgeschlossen wird der Schwer- dessen kollektive Diskussion und Weiterentwicklung, verste- punkt zu Antisemitismuskritik von Alex Carstiucs Beitrag Léon hen wir als unseren bescheidenen Beitrag zu einer derartig ver- Poliakov – Den Holocaust persönlich nehmen. Carstiuc portraitiert standenen Überwinterungsstrategie. Leben und Werk eines Pioniers der Geschichtsschreibung über die Die vorliegende Textsammlung vereint siebzehn Beiträge zu nationalsozialistische Verfolgung und Vernichtung des europä- unterschiedlichen thematischen Schwerpunkten: Kritik des ischen Judentums. Er würdigt dessen frühe Beiträge zur Antisemi- Antisemitismus und anderer reaktionärer Ideologien wie Sozial- tismusforschung und kritisiert die Ignoranz der postnazistischen darwinismus, Verschwörungsdenken und Heimatliebe; Por- Historikerzunft. traits kritischer Intellektueller wie Eike Geisel und Wolfgang Die folgenden Beiträgen thematisieren verschiedene reaktionäre Pohrt; Kritik der herrschenden Geschlechterverhältnisse; Bei- Ideologien wie Sozialdarwinismus, Verschwörungstheorien und träge zur Marxschen Kritik der politischen Ökonomie und der Heimatliebe. Peter Bierl gibt in Wie Menschen zur Schnecke ge- Diskussion um problematische Aspekte sozialer Bewegungen macht werden. Zur Kritik des Sozialdarwinismus einen histo- und ihrer theoretischen Stichwortgeber*innen. rischen Überblick des Sozialdarwinismus in der Linken. Bierl zufolge sind sozialdarwinistische Positionen wie vom SPD- Mitglied Tilo Sarazzin oder dem australischen Grünen und Tierrechtler Peter Singer keine Ausnahmen: Sie reihen sich ein 1 Christoph Burgmer: Das negative Potential. Gespräche mit Johannes in sozialdarwinistische Ansichten, wie sie sich in Teilen der so- Agnoli, Freiburg 2002, S. 17-18, S. 22. zialistischen, anarchistischen, kommunistischen und feminis- 2 Jan Sparsam/Moritz Zeiler: Maulwurfsarbeit. Aufklärung und De- tischen Linken im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert fnden lassen. In batte, Kritik und Subversion, in: associazione delle talpe/Rosa-Luxem- burg-Initiative (Hrsg.): Maulwurfsarbeit. Aufklärung und Debatte, seinem zweiten Beitrag referiert Peter Bierl zur Geschichte von Kritik und Subversion, Berlin 2010, S. 4-7 und Moritz Zeiler/Oliver Verschwörungstheorien. In Fremde Herrschaft – Zu Geschichte, Barth: Zur Einleitung, in: associazione delle talpe/Rosa-Luxemburg- Gegenwart und Attraktivität von Verschwörungstheorien präsen- Initiative (Hrsg.): Maulwurfsarbeit II. Kritik in Zeiten zerstörter Illusi- tiert er zahlreiche historische und aktuelle Beispiele und disku- onen, Berlin 2012, S. 4-6. 6 tiert deren ungebrochene Anziehungskraft. Tomas Ebermann tersucht, wie Marx die Frage der Ökologie in Werken wie den kritisiert in seinem Beitrag Linke Heimatliebe. Eine Entwurzelung Grundrissen und dem Kapital erörtert und stellt dazu relevante den positiven Heimatbezug unter Linken. Ihm zufolge kann es Erkenntnisse aus neuen Veröfentlichungen aus
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