Bourgeois party

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The bourgeois party is a controversial term in politics that some parties use to describe themselves and that is also used in the media. According to camp theory , the “bourgeois camp” is usually contrasted with the “left camp”. The media in Germany traditionally attribute the CDU , CSU and FDP to the so-called bourgeois camp .

The "bourgeois camp"

In the Federal Republic of Germany, Heiner Geißler , then Secretary General of the CDU, introduced the camp theory to the German public in the mid-1980s . Within the newly created four-party system, Geissler referred to the center-right CDU, CSU and FDP as the bourgeois camp, the SPD and the Greens as the left-wing camp . The AfD , founded in 2013, also describes itself as “bourgeois”, which has met with much criticism.

In the 1998 federal election campaign, the camp theory was often discussed as a possible explanatory model.

In 2019, after the state elections in Thuringia, Michael Heym spoke of the fact that there was a “right-wing bourgeois majority” made up of CDU, AfD and FDP and advocated a “bourgeois coalition” made up of these parties. These statements also met with broad criticism in his own party.

In the German-speaking media, conservative and right-wing liberal parties abroad are also often referred to as bourgeois parties.

Criticism of the term

The concept of the bourgeois party or the bourgeois camp is often used in political discourse as a fighting term and to distinguish it from the political left . Its use is controversial because in a democracy all members of society are citizens , regardless of their political or social background. What features this term implies remains largely unclear, according to critics, so that the name is ultimately meaningless.

Bourgeoisie in party names

Several parties lead or use the designation "civil" or "citizen" in their names. Examples are:

"Bourgeois" parties in the Soviet Zone and GDR

Various other political parties in the Soviet occupation zone and later GDR were called “bourgeois” in the jargon of the SED , which in 1950 merged as bloc parties in the National Front . In Marxist parlance, the attribute stands derogatory for all characteristics of the bourgeoisie , which is accused of wanting to preserve the existing class society ( capitalism ) and to prevent the emancipation of the working class .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MACHTPOKER IN BONN , Focus Online Archive, last seen on July 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Everyone wants to be able to work with everyone , Welt Online, last seen on July 11, 2020.
  3. ^ The self-appointed commoners , Zeit Online, last seen on July 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ "power play in Bonn" Focus 48/1995 of 27 November 1995
  5. ↑ CDU parliamentary group vice Heym promotes alliance with AfD and FDP , last seen on July 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Mike Mohring should run for election". In: Die Zeit , November 1, 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  7. ↑ Berlusconi could return to the political stage , last seen on July 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Paschal Donohoe is the new head of the Eurogroup , last seen on July 11, 2020.
  9. ↑ Michael Martin of the New Prime Minister of Ireland bourgeois party , Der Standart, last seen July 11, 2020.
  10. ^ Peter Pragal: Bourgeois camp - a political battle term . dradio.de. February 9, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ Simone Gaul: What is it actually, a "bourgeois" party? . Time online. September 3, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  12. ^ Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from Above. The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany 1948–1963. Munich 2003, p. 18. In Google books
  13. ^ Bürgerlich In: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie digital, Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG, 2002.