– many noticed it, though they overlooked that the tremor existed already for a long time and too many got used to the underlying tectonic cracks or fractures in soci(et)al structures.Both, the election of the Trump as 47th POTUS, also known as President of the United States of America) and the collapse of the traffic light coalition in the Federal Republic of Germany came for many as a shock, also in connection with the justified fear in the face of the strengthening of the right-wing populist AFD in the German House. In fact – and overlooked, is a development that characterised post-war polities. While one part of the world had been declared as non-existent – another formulation for the discrimination and delegitimation of the countries that did not accept the ‘Western path of development’ – the West itself veiled its character behind a claim of universalism: capitalism presented itself as ‘neutral form of the economic system’, where supposedly the rising tide lifted all boats; the polity presented democracy as system without real substance: parties, representing different interests, presenting themselves as peoples’ parties; the ‘levelled-off middle-class society’ (Schelsky) that existed for some time at the surface, had been taken for normality, denying the fact that wealth had been not the wealth of society, and the private wealth had been not equally distributed. … more …
