signandsight.com | 01/12/2010
“The Coming Insurrection” was greeted by two of Germany’s leading feuilletons as exhiliarating, important left-wing theory. But it is an anti-modern, right-wing re-import, says Johannes Thumfart
This article, which is a response to the enthusiastic reviews in the FAZ and SZ feuilletons of the French manifesto, in turn prompted those papers to defend themselves in round three. More about that here.
When “The Coming Insurrection” (here in English) was published anonymously in France the state authorities came down hard on its presumed authors. Based on the theories of the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, the manifesto calls for political violence and fulminates against democracy and the rule of law.