The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments in Germany, which have been in power for a long time and still are even as we speak. That is the real problem: that there is no serious opposition in Germany at all. And the Left party is divided.

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.