08:47 Jun 15, 2005 |
Danish to English translations [PRO] Slang | |||||
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| Selected response from: Dana Sackett Lössl Denmark Local time: 10:54 | ||||
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5 +1 | the Autonomen |
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3 | left-wing extremists |
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3 | Autonomists |
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left-wing extremists Explanation: my personal interpretation! |
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the Autonomen Explanation: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2175088679... Katsiaficas defines them as "organic structures" with diverse views, "unencumbered with rigid ideologies" (p. 196). They are not a party, or a movement, but what participants would call "politics of the first person" (p. 197). They consisted of activists who use peaceful protest as well as violent activities to resist established political and legal edicts and who insist that resistance is freedom, though they cannot (or choose not) to ascribe their positions to an ideological or intellectual construct. Indeed, the author argues, it is the Autonomen's indeterminacy which is its most defining feature. Instead, the Autonomen define themselves by action--even as they themselves are divided as to the merits of violence in political resistance undertaken to protect squatted buildings or to prevent nuclear expansion. Subgroups have emerged and further fragmented the groups. Yet, Katsiaficas insists that this does nothing to undermine the argument that indeed all these popular political actions are part of the Autonomen, and that their social revolution against the "centrifugal force of corporate capitalism" has emerged as more significant than any international political party ties or cultural ties within nations (p. 101). Reference: http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/clayrev.htm Reference: http://www.blackoutmedia.org/killswitch/ |
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Autonomists Explanation: A suggestion if you don't want to use the German term. "About Autonomy Autonomia, Autonomen, or autonomists have been the names used for various popular social change and countercultural movements in Italy, Germany, Denmark, Holland and other parts of Europe in the last 3 decades. All of these different movements have sought to radically oppose authority, domination and violence anywhere that they exist in contemporary life (which is pretty much everywhere)." (see ref. below for source) Reference: http://www.autonomskola.net/texter/rtf/030907_autonomia.rtf |
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