Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
The information scientist Prof. Dr. Karl Steinbuch, who had to experience
the collapse of discussion culture at German universities in the
early 1970s when left-wing radical students saw to it by means of socalled
“sit-ins” that inconvenient professors could no longer teach,
wrote about that in wise foresight: 199
“One does not admit that democracy consists of letting the other
talk as well, and that discussing starts with listening. This depressing
style of public discourse will finally lead to de-democratization.”
Several decades in advance, the Spanish sociologist José Ortega y
Gasset, whom I have also quoted before, characterized absolutely accurately
that, which has been happening ever since in Germany, by writing:
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“‘to have done with discussions,’ […] means that there is a renunciation
of the common life based on culture, […] and a return to
the common life of barbarism.”
That you are not trying to dissuade me from my opinion with arguments,
but instead by refusing any discussion and by striving to throw
me into prison, is exactly this relapse into barbarity. Because, as Karl
Steinbuch has said it: 201
“[… the] prerequisite of any credible and enforceable behavioral
norm in our time [is] its justification by means of comprehensible
necessities […].”
Threats of violence, however, are not justifications by means of
comprehensible necessities. He who refuses a discussion and uses violence
instead has stopped justifying. He then can no longer expect to be
understood.
Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich have become famous with
their book The Inability to Mourn, which was a milestone of the Federal
German process of coming to terms with the German past. But the
premise with which both authors have written their book seems to have
been overlooked, which is why I may call it to mind here from their
introduction: 202
“Is the German people’s striving for wealth truly accompanied
by a newborn love for liberty? Is their ability to tolerate and respect
199
Karl Steinbuch, Kurskorrektur, Seewald, Stuttgart 1973, p. 98.
200
José Ortega y Gasset, op. cit. (note 61), p. 135; Engl. ed. (note 61), p. 56.
201
Karl Steinbuch, op. cit. (note 199), p. 60.
202
Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich, The Inability to Mourn, Grove Press, New York 1975,
p. xxiv.
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