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„Das Feindbild der „multikulturellen Gesellschaft“ in der „Jungen Freiheit“ und der „Nation und Europa“

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Meyer, Christian

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German

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The central aspects of investigation in this thesis are based on the terms "multicultural society" (MCS), "Feindbild" (the concept of the enemy, CE) and the "Neue Rechte" (New Right, NR). The representatives of the NR belong to the most adamant opponents of the MCS. This thesis uses the authors of the NR- magazines "Junge Freiheit" (Young Freedom, YF) and "Nation und Europa" (Nation and Europe, NE) as examples how and to what extent the multicultural society became for them a concept of the enemy. This represents the essence of this thesis. One essential part of the NR-self-image is their claim to modernization and re-intellectualization: the assertion of the NR to have at their disposal a modern and scientifically based idea of man and society. To what extent both magazines satisfy their own claims is the second central question of this thesis. Source materials were the volumes 1986 - 1996 of both - similar but quite different - magazines: 108 issues of NE and 203 of YF - altogether nearly 12000 pages. This thesis analyses to what extent the ideologemes in these texts reflect the MCS as a concept of the enemy. Finally the different ideologemes are compared with the 17 CE-criteria derived from literature. Important NR- ideologemes in the YF and the NE were among others ... • the ideologem of purity, a phobia of mixing: In both magazines this refers to nations but also to the "blood" and ethnic groups, cultures, languages ... The NE even postulated: “The mixing of cultures is genocide, mixing of races is genocide." Contacts between cultures should be limited, they could lead to a „genocide with a human face". On the individual level the figure of the ,,Mischling" (half cast, half breed) is typical for the NR-idea of purity: Imperatively the "Mischling" is non-harmonious, is sentenced to lifelong inner conflicts, mentally split, homeless and unhappy. • the ideologem of purity also refers to the cleansing of the German language, specifically with regard to the English language, and against the German spelling reform. • the ideologem of the "stranger": The stranger becomes an insurmountable figure who should be excluded and fought. The authors of both magazines didn't recognize the basic ambiguity of the stranger. "The Gypsy '',„ the Muslim" and more or less hidden "the Jew" are important for the concept of the stranger. • the ideologem to ward off refugees and asylum seekers: In this regard some parts of the reports borders on demagoguery and racist incitement. • the ideologem of islamophobia: From the perspective of NR-authors, Islam has become aspecially dangerous because the MCS has increased due to Muslim immigration. For the NR ,,the Islam" and the impending Islamization have become a new CE. • the ideologemes of collective essentialistic attributions, assigned to people, nation, ethnic group as well as ”race". • the ideologem of a "national identity": This concept is not used in a descriptive but in a essentialistic sense. National identity becomes one of the central and most successfull, excluding and ostracizing terms of the NR. • the ideologemes of cultural impoverishment due to mixing: From the perspective of NR increasing cultural contacts lead to degeneration and finally the ,,Volkstod" (death of the nation) as a consequence of MCS. • the ideologem of a static and unchangeable ,,Heimatgefühl" (sense of home), based on a supposed species specific Territory: ,,Heimat" (home) is ideologically equivalent to the area of congenital territoriality. • the ideologem of being rooted to the soil ("Boden") and a latent hostility towards urbanized regions. • the ideologem of criminality as a consequence of rootlessness: According to the NR-authors violence and crime are an expression of a cultural and ethnic rootlessness. • the ideologem of the denationalized supposed rootlessness of the Germans due to the allied reeducation after 1945 (the process of coming to terms with the past, the student movement of 1968, the "Frankfurt School of philosophy" and a German "national-masochism"). • the ideologem of an anti- egalitarizm, meaning the struggle against the idea of equality and instead for elites and hierarchies: As a consequence of the supposed inequally of people, a scepticism towards democracy develops. The often shown yearning for a strong charismatic leader is cause to doubt the democratic attitude of the NR. • - the ideologem of an anti-universalism: It is insufficient to solely propagate individual human rights as this ignores the rights of Nations ("Völkerrechte"), the right of ,,Heimat" (home, homeland), as well as the right of identity. • - the ideologem of holdimg myth, irrationality and voluntarism (as well as the rejection of utopian thinking) in high esteem The NR-ideologem often links myth with obscure mysticism, consciously contrasting it with the subversive logos, against rationality, enlightenment, reason and modernity. • - the ideologem of the rejection, hostility against a supranational Europe. • - the ideologem of eschatological and declining concepts, an idea I call ,,finis germaniae complex". These ideas of decline could be based on a deep elementary sensation of anxiety (,, Angst"). It was striking that a lot of NR- ideologemes were linked with ancient, primordial, attavistic, archetypical-religious and infantile imaginations. However not every supranational tendency is rejected like the MCS. Some of the NR-authors propagate vague ideas of the empire ("Reich"). Ethnopluralism is often seen as an alternative to the MCS. But all these ideas stay diffuse and inconsistent in themselves. Ethnopluralism is an empty word. The anti-multicultural reporting in the two magazines are characterized by .... • conspicuous usage of biologismes and esoterismes • a trivialisation and banalisation of terms • attempts ar retorsion of ideologically important terms • the usage of defence phrases (like “Gutmensch”, gooder), allowing them to make the enemy look ridiculous and to avoid any discussion regarding the content • an apparently rebellious image as a taboo breaker • a partially devaluating, insulting terminology, in part vituperations • a lot of conspirous strains of thought. The claim to modernization and re-intellectualization laid by the NR-authors isn’t satisfied by the NE and YF, although by the YF a bit more than the NE. New scientific results were chosen and interpreted by the magazines in a very selective manner. In particular, those research results which seemed to confirm and reinforce the NR-image of man and society were included / selected thematically. Research findings, however, that questioned or criticized the NR-ideology are not mentioned or dismissed cursorily. This applies especially for results found in social psychology, learning research, ethology, genome research, the paleo-anthropology or empathy research. The willingness to ignore of the whole psychoanalytic and socialpsychological discourse of the last decades is salient. Certainly this is a consequence of the general NR- view on the psychoanalysis as a part of the allied reeducation process. All in all, the NR-ideologemes appear as a linguistically “modernized”, adapted form of the traditional rightwing ideologemes (for example “territoriality” instead of “Lebensraum” , living space). Finally the re-intellectualization could suffer from the old deep hate or at least a rejection felt by many NR- supporters towards intellectuals. The MCS was (and is) a main concept of the enemy for the most the NE- and YF-authors. Similarly important are in this regard the CEs as being the USA, Liberalism, Marxism, “one world” or today certainly the most powerful one is “the Islam”. The transitions from a CE to a conspiracy theory and to paranoia are fluid: A stabilized CE has the tendency to increase to a conspiracy theory which borders on paranoid attitudes, a dangerous structure for every society. The continuing political importance of the CE “multicultural society” today can be found in the growing successes of right wing populist parties all over Europe. For most of them the struggle against the MCS is a central point in their party program, a main item on their agenda. None of the NR-propaganda contents (immigration, crime, Islam …) could be successful without the fear of the social descent, the unemployment, the loneliness and the lack of appreciation.

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10.17169/refubium-17857.2

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Freie Universität Berlin

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