Benedict Kaiser

Benedikt Kaiser (* 1987 ) is a German political scientist and author . He is assigned to the New Right .

Life

Kaiser studied political science with a European focus in Chemnitz . He works as a lecturer at the publishing house Antaios , is a regular author of the right-wing theoretical organ Secession and an important player in the Institute for State Policy (IfS) around Götz Kubitschek . Kaiser is also Germany correspondent for the magazine Éléments, edited by Alain de Benoist , and stands for a further development of a modern right-wing criticism of capitalism . He publishes on Paneuropean ideas, European fascisms and intellectuals in the environment of authoritarian movements and parties.

Positions

Kaiser is considered the German apologist of Alain de Benoist , with whom he has already appeared together. Like him, he works on expanding the new right perspective on economic and socio-political issues, including in the right-wing intellectual journal Sezession . Within the secession he is particularly responsible for questions critical of capitalism. The sociologist Thomas Wagner points out that Kaiser's texts would differ from the tone of the nationalist anti-capitalism of the NPD . Kaiser represents sharp opposition to neoliberalism and criticizes the power of multinational corporations. In his book “Querfront” in particular, he speaks out against a neoliberalization of the political right and calls on them to address the social question .

He is also inspired by left-wing debates. Based on the term “mosaic left” coined by the union left Hans-Jürgen Urban , he coined the term “mosaic right”. Within these “mosaic rights” he has a strategic view of the AfD , which has the task of uniting different camps, “whose ideological positions can sometimes differ greatly”. This brought him the charge of "discourse piracy". He considers a “revolutionary realpolitik” to be the order of the day. " Metapolitics and party politics, journalism and parliamentarism, demonstrations and party meetings" shouldn't be opposites, according to Kaiser. The rifts between real politicians and fundamental opposition would have to be filled in order to “build another Germany as a long-term goal”.

Despite the allegations of “discourse piracy”, critics like Tilman Krause also describe him as “intellectually quite capable of satisfactory”. Kaiser himself countered corresponding allegations in an interview with Thomas Wagner: "[...] it's not about intellectual theft. Instead, we look to see where something is actually better analyzed and formulated by left theorists, and sometimes even by a liberal thinker. This can be taken up in the sense of a critical takeover and integrated into your own position. It would be narrow-minded to say that I am not doing this because I am dealing with a leftist thinker. "

In addition to social issues, his focus is on European issues. For example, at an academy run by the Institute for State Policy, he declared that Europe could only become an independent political force if it overcame its nationalisms and chauvinisms in favor of cross-border solidarity.

Works (selection)

• Eurofascism and bourgeois decadence. Concept of Europe and social criticism in Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (= Kiel studies of the history of ideas ; Volume 5), Regin-Verlag , Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-941247-26-0 .
• The phenomenon of island fascism. Blackshirts, Blueshirts and other authoritarian movements in Great Britain and Ireland 1918-1945 , Regin-Verlag, Kiel 2013, ISBN 978-3-941247-24-6 .
• Transverse front (= Kaplaken ; 49), Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2017. ISBN 978-3-944422-49-7
• (with Alain de Benoist , Diego Fusaro ) Marx from right (= theory ; 2), Jungeuropa Verlag , Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-9817828-6-8 .
• Look to the left or: The conformist rebellion (= Kaplaken ; 61), Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2019, ISBN 978-3-944422-61-9 .
• Solidarity patriotism. The social question from the right , Verlag Antaios, Steigra 2020, ISBN 978-3-944422-73-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Benedikt Kaiser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sebastian Friedrich : Original and forgery , Friday , No. 17, April 26, 2018.
2. ↑ Richard Gebhardt: The AfD, the social question and the 'mosaic' of the right , in: Das Argument 331/2019, pp. 100-106
3. ↑ A new "cross front"? In: the right edge. Retrieved November 5, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Marx from the right. Retrieved May 10, 2019 . 
5. ^ André Postert: “Saxony and intellectual right-wing extremism. Metapolitics of the New Right. ”In: Uwe Backes / Steffen Kailitz (Ed.): Saxony - A stronghold of right-wing extremism? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2020, p. 58.
6. ^ Tilman Krause : Get to know the right , Die Welt compact, March 16, 2018
7. ↑ Thomas Wagner: “Whoever wants to fight the right has to know how they think. An answer to Richard Gebhardt. ”In: Das Argument Nr. 325, pp. 107–114, here p. 109.
8. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao : optimism at the Neue Rechten , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 15, 2018