It is an analysis of Buchner's Danton-drama. The article traces back the rather controversial presentation of the revolution in the play to Buüchner's experiences as a second generation revolutionary. According to the author, the contradictory nature of the revolution is also expressed in the way how the myth of the revolution and the absurd outlook on the world confront in the play.
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The role of force in pedagogy
The well known pedagogue-author discusses the problems linked with applying compulsion of education. At a certain level, compulsion goes together with all types of pedagogy. In contrast to education based on force and the extremities of liberal attitudes, he is supporter of an individual-centred education in which the individual is viewed in his active mutual relationship with society and where compulsion, the force of the community emerges as a result of the activity of individuals forming the community: the individual can act as subject of his own education.
March and revolution
The short essay proves the bourgeoise nature of the march songs which are linked with the working class movement in public thinking, namely that aggressive subordination of individuals to being a mass of people contradicts socialist endeavours aimed at developing individuality.
Anarchy and violence
The author starts out from power violence and opposes it to anti-power and therefore anti-violence anarchy. He describes the trends of anarchism, the means used by anarchists, their debates about the use of violence and the terrorist age of anarchy. According to his standpoint, to a large extent, the violent solutions can be traced back to the moral characteristics of one or another movement. He argues that anarchy is the least violent of the various emancipation movements.
Violence as self-defence – Behaviour and self-image of marginal subculture members
The author-sociologist analyses the whys and hows of getting into the forefront of the cult of violence, national intolerance and elements of fascist ideology of the attitude of young generations in the 1980s. He traces back partly psychological motivations, partly the hopelessness of the social position when discussing the emergence of these phenomena that can be identified with conscious fascism only very rarely and by taking abundant quotations from young people's ideals, he shows the specific features of thinking of this marginal group.