What is actually problem with home? Doesn't everyone have a homeland that he loves, wants to preserve and protect from change, that is, to become unrecognizable? The problem with homeland is precisely that term must always resonate with a loss experience or fear of loss in order to unfold its emotional value. In particular, politics becomes a homeland only if it is thought to be threatened; This is where propaganda of AfD lives. And most of all, homeland must immediately be perceived as precarious if it is assigned to a ministry as a design task. Horst Seehofer, newly installed federal Minister of Interior, for construction and homeland, has refore tried in a remarkable contribution for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to name this precarious and at same time from its toxic, tending to FREMDENFE Indlichen components.
The first thing he does is to make an enemy determination that does not have current specter of immigration. The enemy of homeland, that is for him globalization, in its market radical form of "economic liberalism". Seehofer is not afraid of class-fighting intensification: "The project of globalization, which has paid off positively in economic elites in true sense of word, has become overwhelming political problem of little people." Sharper, no left-wing politician could also disenchant liberal belief in "self-regulating ability" of "unregulated and boundless markets" as socially damaging superstitions. "Homeland Politics" (he actually uses term) is refore essential for him in return of state as a control organ. "Neo-liberal thinking must be replaced by a ordoliberales action – and this begins with appreciation of a visible and tangible state."
Thus, homeland is already justified as a ministerial task; The FDP will not be happy. Secondly, Seehofer wants to keep away uneasy, exclusionive affects of term by thinking homeland in plural – Germany encompasses diverse, even competing homelands. He formulates: "Homeland policy is refore always a policy of diversity", and accordingly coldly it leaves formerly esteemed slogans of Culture and nation fall – as tends to be "burdened with controversy".
This article comes from time No. 19/2018. Here you can read entire output.But how does it come to a positive destiny of home? He recalled that he had already forged a "covenant of values" for Bavaria, "a plural-based values order", which, however, remains pale after prolonged explanation and does not stand apart from famous constitutional fidelity; After all, with emphasis on freedom of conscience and equal rights of men and women, it shows a recognizable edge towards radical Islamic communities. It becomes more evident with terms "cohesion", " unifying and collective", finally with demand for immigrants to participate in joining, to feel "belonging".
At last meters, Seehofer n turns into curve, which reminds us of well-known route of key culture debate, warnings of parallel societies and unwillingness of immigrants who are unwilling to integrate. But can it be any different? Those who want to get right-wing populists out of ir homeland must at least approach ir political coordinates in Asymptote. But essentially, it keeps on distance; To illustrate his tolerant homeland concept, Seehofer calls Turkish-born cabaret artists Django Asül as a fine example of a home-shaping figure in lower Bavarian region. He has thus ruled out German national fanatics as addressee of his home concept. More is not to be demanded of CSU; It's all very good.
Date Of Update: 03 May 2018, 12:02
