Author Archives: Harald Sitta
A rumble in the jungle (Part 1)
Patria nostra olim provincia Romana erat - First sentence in the Austrian schoolbook Liber latinus The ongoing debate about colonialism and all that jazz needs a contribution from my side –…
Hurrah – the party of genocide! Hurrah – the party of misery!
‘Stop that nonsense with me’ – Lady Astor to von Rippentrop, German ambassador to the court of St. James, giving her the ‘Nazi’ salute In the Sunday Times issue dated 26 February,…
Political and Cultural Hegemony – A Battlefield of Minds (Part 4)
Saul Alinsky was an American and master tactician during the 'underdog' anti-establishment militant protest period in the 1960s. He was recently rediscovered by various think tanks and blogs of the…
Political and Cultural Hegemony – A Battlefield of Minds (Part 3)
Stefan George was a German poet and artist active before and after the Great War, until his death in 1933. First bound to symbolism, he turned away from pure aestheticism…
Political and Cultural Hegemony – A Battlefield of Minds (Part 2)
Political and Cultural Hegemony – A Battlefield of Minds (Part 1) Antonio Gramsci, Stefan George and Saul Alinsky are outstanding in their influence and their respective will and intention to…
Political and Cultural Hegemony – A Battlefield of Minds (Part 1)
“In the fight of minds the occupation of a term is as important as in war the occupation of a fortress” Helmut Quaritsch How many of us use the term…
A Clear and Present Stupidity
Who can think something stupid, something clever which was not already thought of in the past. Goethe, Faust II Derek Charles Catsam in the Sunday Independent, dated 20th of November…
Extreme Disorder Beyond Any Order? The State of the State Today
Quaeres siletes juristitae in munere vestro? An article written in September mirrored a certain "with the back to the wall" feeling of the author being confronted with a degree of…
Rational Debate on Politics, or Just the Poisoning of Wells?
About the riff raff – Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra II Martin van Staden dealt with the teachings of Gillian Schutte in his recent article “Reject the preachers of economic ignorance” from the…
A Short Matrix, If Introducing An NHI
Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health. Source: Dear Minister of Health, A National Health Insurance covering all South African citizens and enabling them to have access to an effective health…