Actionism
Actionism is a derivation of the Latin term actio for "action" and describes action-oriented doing.
The term activism assumed bustling, unreflective or aimless action without approach to the appearance of inaction or underuse to avoid or cover up. Actionism can also mean that many projects are discussed or started but not completed.
Politicians are often accused of “mere / blind actionism” . So there are always politicians or political groups who come forward with expressions of opinion and demonstrations on a wide variety of political issues, but who neglect targeted, practical political work that is often difficult to communicate to the public.
The term also stands for unorganized political or social actions that aim to change existing social conditions, but whose goals are neither precisely defined nor thought through and whose consequences are usually not considered.
After his lectures were disrupted as part of the student protests at the end of the 1960s , the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno criticized the activism that had become visible in an interview with Der Spiegel in 1969 : This was "essentially due to despair [...] because the people feel how little power they actually have to change society ”. However, all these individual actions are "doomed to failure", which had already been shown during the May riots in Paris in 1968 .
Actionism is primarily a concept associated with anarchism of direct, immediate and not proxy-led action. Actionism means first of all one's own, non-symbolic, resisting action. Actionism overcomes the means-end relationship. Actionism shows itself in a variety of subversive actions. The action itself is an expression of a subversive life and is not evaluated in terms of visible effects on the political order, as it can be viewed as a shift in the balance of power. In political activism, it seems important to understand one's own person as a point of resistance and resistance itself as the development of alteritarian living conditions and thus to avoid the risks of representative political concepts. The action itself can be perceived as a “pleasurable experience, liberating act, moment of self-realization” and have the “character of a staging, a game”. An action-oriented concept that, on the other hand, aims at concrete social changes, is direct action .
Even the fascism is considered ideology at its center less than a program was an uncompromising will to act: All the time appealed the fascist propaganda not feelings and sense of community, a rational analysis and discussion of social conditions was typically place.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don't be afraid of the ivory tower . Der Spiegel from May 5, 1969 ( online , accessed November 21, 2019).
- ↑ Dieter Paas: France: The integrated left radicalism p. 195f. quoted n. Gabriel Kuhn : Becoming an Animal, Becoming Black, Becoming Man An introduction to the political philosophy of post-structuralism . Unrast-Verlag Münster 2005 ISBN 978-3-89771-441-0 p. 204
- ^ VAL: love and war p. 35. quoted. n. Gabriel Kuhn: Becoming an Animal, Becoming Black, Becoming Man An introduction to the political philosophy of post-structuralism. Unrast-Verlag Münster 2005 ISBN 978-3-89771-441-0 p. 204
- ↑ Jörg Echternkamp : The Third Reich. Dictatorship, national community, war . (= Oldenbourg floor plan of the story , vol. 45). Oldenbourg, Munich 2018, ISBN 3-486-75569-2 , p. 230 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
