Panel discussion: What was new about the "New Left"?

Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 19 clock 
Westend Campus (room TBA)

With:

Prof. Alex Demirovic (Rosa Luxembourg Foundation)

Stefan Egger Dinger (Labour Union for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party)

Detlef to the angle (a freelance journalist)

Under the "New Left" different movements of the Left are commonly taken in the 1960er/1970er years in Germany, which itself expressly from the "orthodox", "traditional" or "old" left (both from Stalinism in the East as well as from the reformist social democracy have delimited in the west). The definition of organization and action of the "old" left determined since a significant theoretical as well as practical orientation of large parts of what is now subsumed under the term "left". 
Approximately ten years later just gave these changes, in the 1970s in Germany, the impetus for numerous failed attempts to build a new Communist Party: the time of the so-called "K-groups." The global reorganization of capital opposite way to post-Fordism, these years were characterized both in theory and in practice by the efforts to re-establish proletarian class policy and Marxist approaches. At the same time emerged from the disintegrating SDS various "New Social Movements", who tended more specific problems and the classical Marxist categories and forms of practice held to be insufficient to meet the new situation.

More than 45 years after the global "phenomenon of '68", the question arises what the similarities and especially what were the differences between the "old" and "new" left. 
How has the New Left meet their needs and to what extent it is connected by a continued existence of capitalism, in a tradition with that "old" left, who was crushed under the Nazis mostly? What is the significance for the West German Left had the fact that the same was in power for development in the FRG in the GDR just those "old left"? But also: What connections has today's left at that New Left and the questions that seemed perhaps overcome, ask again today?What was new on the New Left and what is its legacy after the mission, a revolutionary, emancipatory transformation of society to make, no longer seems to be in prospect today?How current are the questions and problems that the New Left was faced with, today? 
During this panel discussion on the one hand to be examined the reasons for the apparent or actual defeat of the 1960s, on the other hand also the neglected importance of the heritage of the 1970s for a anti-capitalist and emancipatory politics are discussed.

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