Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

As Marx and Engels championed materialism against idealism in philosophy, so also they consistently criticised the view that the state stood above classes, represented the common interest of all society (except negatively, as a safeguard against its collapse), or was … Weiterlesen →

Frankly, I don’t think that political awareness is going to prove the best medicine for our current malady. Most people know that financial dictatorship is destroying their life; the problem is knowing what to do about it. It is possible … Weiterlesen →

In his last book, Chaosmosis (1992), Guattari writes that ‚Among the fogs and miasmas which obscure our fin de millenaire, the question of subjectivity is now returning as a leit motiv …‘ He first adds: ‚All the disciplines will have … Weiterlesen →

The ethical foundation of the modern social scene was based on the responsibility of the bourgeois class and the solidarity between workers. The Protestant bourgeois was responsible to God and to the territorial community which made his prosperity possible. The … Weiterlesen →

Only non-involvement and the ability to remain extraneous, to refuse any identification with one’s job and with one’s working condition, only a radical rejection of the ethics of responsibility, might offer workers the possibility of navigating a way out from … Weiterlesen →