With the slogans of the RAF: parallels between the climate movement and the 1968ers and the danger of radicalization

Created: 12/17/2022 10:02 am

"Save oil instead of drilling" is written on the hand of a demonstrator from the group "Last Generation".

© Paul Zinken/dpa/symbol image

The "last generation" is currently more present in Germany than ever.

A guest post about parallels to past movements, risks and dangers.

Munich - It's going well for the "Last Generation".

The donations flow, as the activists proudly announce.

And due to the increased media presence - cynically since the death of a cyclist in Berlin, where an emergency vehicle arrived eight minutes later due to an action by the climate stickers, according to the fire department - the movement is gaining momentum.

Which means that the number of actions on the streets, in cultural institutions, universities and at airports is not declining, but has increased.

The Klimalinge work themselves into the hubris of representing the majority and the constitution.

But they don't.

They are an extra-parliamentary opposition without a democratic mandate.

The majority of the population wants climate protection, but they don't want to be coerced and patronized by activists who have no expert knowledge of climate, economy, energy, democracy, human rights and history.

The majority of the population produces the added value that can enable the prerequisite and basis for the Federal Republic's ambitious phase-out of coal and other fossil fuels.

A large proportion of people in mainstream society are educated on environmental issues.

And open to finding out and doing something.

So there is no need for media effects,

The author: Bettina Röhl in profile

Bettina Röhl is a journalist and author.

She became known in 2001 with publications in Stern, Bild and Tagesthemen on the past of then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.

Photos showing Fischer beating down a police officer sparked debate about his continued post.

As a journalist, Bettina Röhl has written and worked for a number of media outlets in Germany.

She has published in Spiegel, Spiegel TV, for Welt und Welt online, Cicero and Wirtschaftswoche, among others.

In her two historical-biographical books "So macht Kommunismus Fun" and "Die RAF hat Euch lieb" she describes the left-wing history of the Federal Republic, the paradigm shift of 1968, the emergence of the RAF and the myth surrounding her mother Ulrike Meinhof.

Bettina Röhl is married, has one daughter and lives in Hamburg.

Do the climate activists have realistic solutions?

The climate activists are demanding a speed limit of 100. What's that supposed to mean?

In Germany there is already a speed limit almost everywhere.

And the CO2 savings from a speed limit of 100 are so low that they would hardly be in the measurable range worldwide.

Conversely, the Klimalinge avoid the question of the greatest CO2-saving energy solution: namely that of nuclear power, which in all probability will be much more environmentally friendly in the future than what we have known as nuclear energy up to now.

The "last generation" doesn't even have an opinion on nuclear power.

When asked, the individual climate activists dodged (as Luise Neubauer told Markus Lanz a few weeks ago) or said explicitly that they had no opinion on the matter.

Apparently, an "instruction" from the headquarters is missing.

It is also noticeable that the climate activists speak in pre-punched speech bubbles.

One example is “Malte”, who just occupied Munich Airport – shortly after his release from preventive custody.

In a video, he babbles off sentences like: "I don't feel like doing this either." "We have no other choice." "Unfortunately, the government doesn't have the crisis under control." "Unfortunately, all other methods have been exhausted ."

All other "methods" of informing people correctly have unfortunately been exhausted?

The climate issue, a global issue with many unknowns, is no longer capable of development and should be explained to the end?

And a few activists are supposed to be the only ones who have the climate under control and now have to drive the whole world before them?

The climate movement – ​​a kind of 1968 rebellion 2.0?

In fact, the climate movement could currently be viewed as a kind of 1968 rebellion 2.0.

The 1968s were very similarly "convinced" to "enlightened" 50 years ago about the need to educate society and educate it to a "higher consciousness".

The methods of protest were strategically shaped by similar thought structures: civil disobedience, acts of sabotage, pudding attacks, throwing tomatoes and eggs.

The loud occupation of institutions, keywords "Sit ins", "Go ins" etc., with ever new protest ideas was not so different.

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Even the young people of 1968 immediately acted as almost omniscient – ​​with pioneers like Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, Marx and Mao in their luggage, whom they had hardly read.

They felt empowered to completely turn society inside out, rid them of capitalism and overthrow the “system” right now.

The 1968s made their "revolution" with "Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll", while today's climate activists are pragmatic, vegan, conservative and somewhat uniformly controlled.

But the ideological vibes are similar.

The 1968ers also preached renunciation of consumption and indulged in an unworldly hostility to performance and technology.

And the 1968ers were also moderately radical at first: yes, violence against things, no violence against people.

But when, at the height of their rebellion, they ran out of constructive ideas on how to concretely improve the world, the movement radicalized and gave birth to its spearhead, the RAF.

“All other methods” had been exhausted was almost the same slogan at the time.

The climate movement is also in danger of developing in an extremist direction.

The President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Lower Saxony, Bernhard Witthaut, rightly warned that certain groups were trying to radicalize the climate movement.

One thing is certain: the “last generation” is already committing endangering crimes.

Actions that - if they become a system of action - can quickly lead to self-radicalization.

A green climate RAF?

Tadzio Müller from the climate activist movement "Ende Gelände", a group classified by the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution as left-wing extremist some time ago, coined the term "green RAF" in an interview with "Spiegel" a year ago would come if society did not respond immediately.

It was a threat!

Tadzio Müller was a speaker at Fridays for Future and after the death of the cyclist in Berlin he posted the now deleted tweet "Shit happens".

Take note of the full tweet, which he otherwise didn't distance himself from: "Shit, but don't be intimidated.

It is a climate fight, not a climate cuddle.”

Mao Tse Tung, a role model for the 1968ers and the RAF, put it this way: "A revolution is not a banquet, it is not writing an essay, it is not painting pictures, it is not embroidering doilies." Is the climate movement aware that here one of them has the ideas of one of the most effective genocides quoted to the world?

Greta Thunberg's path to great transformation

Greta Thunberg as a pioneer of the movement, to a certain extent as a female Rudi Dutschke 2.0, has meanwhile turned her climate movement in the direction of "climate justice" and wants to change the system, abolish capitalism.

In terms of ideas, the movement is almost exactly on the 1968 track and reveals a mental standstill in a shocking way.

All countries that have attempted to abolish "capitalism" and replace it with some form of communism have regularly been pushed into dictatorship, mass murder, starvation, and starvation.

The paths of Marx and Mao, which the helpless and ignorant Klimaling tread, are red with blood.

And neither played nor actual innocence helps here.