Category Archives: Former issues

The national and the universal: is a world culture possible?

The culture of every social group – as opposed to the total culture of mankind"- is particular. The most specific form of this particularity in the modern age is nationalism. Paradoxically, despite of the plurality of the nation-states, they tend to become more and more alike: they operate according to uniform, universal rules. As a protest against this formal control, an organised and an anarchic variant of cultural resistance has emerged.

1993 – a new nationality issue

According to the author's prognosis, by the end of the century, the two ruling formations of our age: the nation and the mass party will decline. World economic relations prove to be stronger than the national/ national economic integration. The left wing has to respond to the changed situation with a new strategy: In contrast to a „market Europe", a cultural identity and political forms that are above the nations have to be established.