
Rosa Luxemburg wrote that the world will turn red in one way or another. Either in socialism or in the barbarism of blood. In the middle of the First World War, she not only expressed the excesses of capitalism and a fundamental apocalyptic experience; she vehemently insisted on the alternative.
Shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump in the USA and the federal election in Germany, the Volksbühne is inaugurating a special series of debates that are based on the patron saint of the Volksbühne, Rosa Luxemburg, and that thinks of the alternative in apocalyptic times.
The opening event is a reflection on a completely new quality of politics, which is initially coming to a head primarily in the USA:
The union of political power and tech capital. Not only does Donald Trump (President) act like a globalized Medici. The acronym of the anti-regulatory agency (Department of Government Efficiency) founded by Elon Musk (rocket builder, operator of a digital world medium and billionaire) is certainly not by accident: DOGE.
The modern versions of the Medici family clan and the Doge are gathering influential tech companies such as META, Google and Amazon around them. Last year, the former NSA chief was appointed to the board of OpenAI.
Everyone knows: Big data not only means potential access to information about people, but also their manipulation. Tech in the hands of politics - currently: the global right - is a powerful and extremely effective instrument of power of unprecedented dimensions.
Whoever has the means of communication potentially has the power to vote! They speak to proven specialists about an impending techno-fascism that has already found its way from Silicon Valley to Germany through the personal connection between Elon Musk and the AfD.
- What are already technologically possible scenarios?
- Has cognitive warfare against our own population already begun? Will the Neo-Medicis perhaps not even have to abolish elections in the future, since they can perform them technically and design them in a large democracy simulation?
- What alternatives are there?
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Dates
March 2025
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