Why not every Porno is hot.
ccording to Wikipedia, pornography or porn is „the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter that seeks to create the
sexual arousal of viewers and their erotic satisfaction, usually by including erotically stimulating material such as nudity and the explicit portrayal of sexual activity“. For many of us, it is now part of our daily lives. Maybe at some point we blushed upon finding the blue movie collection of our parents in the far back of the DVD drawer, or friends showed us some pics on their cellphones, perhaps some of us have surfed YouPorn, but even normal movies rarely do without a sex scene. The media even calls us „generation porno“. If people discuss the matter, they often use catchwords like ‚youth protection‘, ‚PorNO‘ (translator’s note: Campaign of the anti-pornography movement in Germany, which was influenced by Andrea Dworkin, author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women), ‚censorship‘, ‚loss of innocence‘, etc.
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“It’s their fault!”
Capitalism. Crisis. Conflicts. Jews are blamed for almost everything.
Antisemitism is one of the oldest and most persistent prejudices. Whether open and violently, or as a quiet opinion or attitude, it finds expression in everyday life including antisemitic graffiti on the streets or synagogue walls, desecration of Jewish cemeteries, strange comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, and statements in politics and the media. On school grounds „You Jew“ can be heard as a swearword, in public debates financial investors and bankers are attacked as a „plague of locusts,“ an image reminiscent of biblical anti-Jewish stories. Even antisemitic conspiracy theories, like those concerning the attack on the World Trade Center, are popular. It is therefore not surprising that according to a study by the Pew Research Center in Washington DC from 2008, about one quarter of all Germans were found to be antisemitic. But this issue is not confined only to Germany – antisemitism exists in Europe, Arab countries and many other regions of the world.
When the Birds and the Bees…
Sex, sex, sex… Have we caught your attention?
In case people are wondering why they’re stumbling across this in a radical left-wing paper, or are hoping for a „juicy article;“ well, then we can reveal it: This text deals with how gender and the state get it on with each other, and it’s about feminism. Feminism? Wait a second, isn’t that old hat? Something to do with madly screaming naked women from the 1960s? Why do start with that again?
Reforming the revolution and revolutionizing reforms
Why we need a revolution. And why a revolution is not enough.
One solution – revolution! A-, Anti- Anticapitalista – Overthrow the System, revolution anarchista! The revolution is my girlfriend! And all the rest of it. At demonstrations, on t-shirts, in lyrics: the magic word “revolution” has a big importance in left images and language. But when we actually start some form of activism – at university, at school, in groups or autonomous centres – our activities can often seem far away from fundamental political change. Much rather we go to anti-Nazi rallies, meet in reading groups, criticize dominant male talking at the student council, or block nuclear waste transports. Sometimes, when we read a text or write a call for a demo this “revolution” pops up, but it always seems to be an empty phrase, somewhat detached from our daily lives. In the following, the magic word will lose its magic and the empty phrase will be filled with some content. So why do we want something like that – a basic change of society, a break with existing conditions? And in which cases are smaller changes – reforms – enough? Weiterlesen →