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208 pages, Hardcover
First published August 17, 2020
"The ability of state institutions to take swift and decisive action while rapidly suspending civil liberties demonstrated one thing above all in all clarity: that the almost non-existent reactions to Nazi structures in the police, the Bundeswehr and the Verfassungsschutz or the failure to help the miserable vegetation of men, women and children at the outer borders of "Fortress Europe" before the eyes of the world were never the result of social and state incapacity — but rather of their unwillingness."In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in right-wing, racist and antisemitic thinking in Germany. Czollek lists reasons for this (most of them obvious^^) and also tries to find solutions, alternatives that makes political parties such as the now popular AfD impossible.
If we really care about society becoming a different and more just one, in the spirit of being allies, we should start classifying people by their goals, not just their positions.Gegenwartsbewältigung is a polemic paper, a means for Czollek to position himself. Czollek is not concerned with weighing and balancing, but with exaggerating and provoking. His theses and arguments are not always concerned with scientific provability, as he freely admits. He is concerned with taking sides – sides with those who are excluded from our society's "limited solidarity". Albeit it lacked in structure and didn't present that many new concepts, it's still a book I'd recommend, especially to people who haven't read much on these topics.