"DEFEND DEMOCRACY!" mit Andreas Kemper (Soziologe): "Der rechtslibertäre Angriff auf die Demokratien"

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Lecture and discussion on the danger from the right in the HALLE

Völkisch nationalism versus radical right-wing libertarianism: two ideological currents are currently competing in the extreme right. Right-wing libertarianism is still often misunderstood - yet its potential to endanger democracy is also highly dangerous. The core of the ideology: the pure rule of private property, contempt for the state and the rejection of democratic principles.
Sociologist Andreas Kemper shows how right-wing libertarianism emerged from radicalized neoliberalism and how "freedom" became the right of the strongest. Institutions such as parliaments, courts and social systems are seen as illegitimate interventions in a supposedly natural order of competition. It is not the common good that counts, but unbridled freedom of contract and total property sovereignty. Participation becomes a disturbance, political and legal equality an ideology, solidarity a weakness. In the order of the strongest, democracy is an obstacle. Subversion, conspiracy and gold The right-libertarian networks consist not only of think tanks and authors, but also of gold traders, conspiracy ideologues and entrepreneurs who use libertarian rhetoric to mobilize against the democratic state and deliberately spread stories of the imminent collapse of the state and system. Parallel to the doomsday scenarios warning of a "world government", a "gender dictatorship" or a "new socialism", precious metal trading, crypto workshops and libertarian investor models are flourishing. The fear of a "crash" is becoming the basis of business - and the political agenda. Cult of masculinity as an ideological pillar Right-libertarian discourses are based on images of masculinity that idealize control, assertiveness and autonomy. In the narrative of the oppressed "free man", the state becomes a "feminized system of coercion" that slows down performance and suppresses genuine masculinity. The men's rights movement - masculist, anti-feminist, capable of connecting to the far right - is part of this staging.
Against this backdrop, not only is equality policy rejected, but the image of a social Darwinist society in which property and self-assertion are the measure of all things is legitimized. AfD & right-libertarian networks Andreas Kemper also shows that right-libertarianism has been part of the AfD's ideological repertoire since its foundation. As early as 2014, the AfD began selling gold coins, e.g. via networks with precious metal dealers such as Degussa. Alice Weidel explicitly described the party to Elon Musk as "libertarian and conservative".
People such as Christophe Lüttmann from the Hayek Club or the far-right influencer Naomi Seibt combine right-wing libertarian milieus, gold trading and AfD-affiliated thinking. These connections are not a marginal phenomenon - but part of an ideological project that pits authoritarianism and property against democratic control.
How powerful is this ideology? Which political actors support it - openly or subliminally? And how can we counter the narratives that threaten democracy?

Andreas Kemper is a journalist and sociologist who deals with classism, anti-feminism and anti-democratic tendencies in the AfD, among other things. In 2022, he published his book "Private Cities. Laboratories for a new Manchester capitalism".

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