
Anti-Germans (political current)
Theoretical and political trend in the left and liberals mainly in Germany and Austria

Theoretical and political trend in the left and liberals mainly in Germany and Austria
"Anti-German" (German: Antideutsch; also Antideutsch(e) movement) is a collective term applied to a variety of theoretical and political tendencies within the left mainly in Germany and Austria. The anti-Germans form one of the main camps within the broader Antifa movement, alongside the anti-Zionist anti-imperialists, after the two currents split between the 1990s and the early 2000s as a result of their diverging views on Israel. The anti-Germans are a fringe movement within the German left. In 2006 Deutsche Welle estimated the number of anti-Germans to be between 500 and 3,000. The basic standpoint of the anti-Germans includes opposition to German nationalism, a critique of mainstream left anti-capitalist views, which are thought to be simplistic and structurally antisemitic, and a critique of antisemitism, which is considered to be deeply rooted in German cultural history. As a result of this analysis of antisemitism, support for Israel and opposition to anti-Zionism is a primary unifying...
Read on Wikipedia · Image Irmel Hirsch, CC BY-SA 2.0
Open boosters, collect cards and trade them. Free to play.
Play for free