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Climate change: How Der Spiegel calls for left-wing violence


Attacks on cars in Germany, acts of violence against pipelines - all of this is allowed when it comes to combating climate change. The Trotskyist Andreas Malm is allowed to write that on Der Spiegel online site. But that's not enough. It is now, according to the medium, about “the relentless intensification of the actions”.

Under the headline "Militant climate fighters demand escalation", the paper publishes a "contribution to the debate" that calls for massive violence. In the opening credits, Der Spiegel tries to shirk its responsibility for the pamphlet at least a little by briefly claiming that by publishing the call for violence it is documenting “the world of thought behind it”. If that was a distancing, that was it. Otherwise, Der Spiegel reader will be incited against SUV drivers and other alleged "climate sinners". It is a call for violence that has probably not been published in an established German publication since the beginning of the Red Army Faction (RAF) terror half a century ago.

The “fossil capital”, writes the Swede Malm in Marxist diction, is “out of control in an infernal and demonic way”. On the other hand, according to the apparent logic of the text, “infernal and demonic” actions are then also legitimate. Referring to various attacks, Malm writes: "We haven't done enough yet. We have to try harder.” In concrete terms: “We don't need any great concepts to realize that only sabotage and damage to property will help now.” But the so-called “activists” are not to blame. It is “fossil capital itself and the realities it creates that bring us to it”.

Praise for talk of "green RAF"
Malm has great hopes for Germany and the “millions of striking schoolchildren and sympathetic adults” who started taking action three years ago. They represented “a considerable reservoir of potential radicalization.” Full of anticipation and indirect prompting, the Trotskyist rhetorically asks, “What will the generation of 2019 do next?” He praises the hunger strike outside the Reichstag, the high-profile roadblocks, and the threat to disrupt air traffic with rising balloons.

He describes the violent German initiative “Ende Gelände” and the group “Fridays for Sabotage” as a “source of inspiration for all of us in Europe”. Malm calls the climate ideologue Tadzio Müller, who was also allowed to talk about a “green RAF” in Der Spiegel, a “brilliant strategist”. And he describes the "deflating of SUV tires" as "a form of extremely peaceful sabotage". He calls the cars “killer vehicles”. He is happy about "1000 flattened SUVs".

And then he talks about what he calls a "militant attack" on a pipeline construction site in the United States. 20 people "armed with axes, flare guns and spray paint" broke into "bulldozers and trucks, using them to smash other machinery, generators, heavy equipment and trailers." But even those are "no more than small pinpricks". Therefore, "in the near future only one thing should be imaginable: the relentless intensification of actions".

"Sabotage as a mass movement"
He justifies this again with allegedly legitimate counter-violence of good against evil: “Because the ruling classes refuse to say goodbye to fossil fuels, those who care about a livable planet are forced to up the ante. It should be clear who is responsible for this.”

For his fantasies of violence, Malm can rely on the progression of global warming in Der Spiegel. Then more people would “feel that more needs to be done.” He wants “sabotage as a mass movement”. For this, “a few would have to take the first step”. Der Spiegel goes along with it by remaining silent.

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