Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 12

1 Me, my time and the beast of nationalism
pay the price with immeasurable hardship, misery and blood sacrific-
es beyond imagination. They were talked into permanent national
mistrust and have always been prejudiced against each other for the
sake of the nation states they lived in. National wounds are slow-
healing and the scars of history keep aching for a very long time – the
75 years since World War are a short span in this respect. The world
seems friendly and sound in prospering days. The moment political
and economic situations become critical the thin ice of civilized unity
and mutual appreciation breaks and the beast of nationalism and
condemnation surfaces again. We are experiencing this in Europe
right now. It would be naive to ignore these historical experiences
tenaciously stored in the collective subconscious of the European
peoples. Majorities obediently followe