Editor-in-chief of the radical left-wing magazine, Konkret, Ulrike Meinhoff, publishes a declaration in an editorial of the May 1968 issue of Konkret, called: “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [From Protest to Resistance].
The boundary between protest and resistance was crossed, but ineffectively nonetheless, and that which happened can still repeat itself. The power structures have not been changed. Resistance was exercised. Positions of power were not taken over. Therefore was it all just meaningless, escalating, terrorist, apolitical, impotent violence?
The fun is over. “Protest is when I say I don’t like this and that. Resistance is when I see to it that things that I don’t like no longer occur.”
Sources:
Ulrike Meinhof Calls for a Move from Protest to Resistance (May 1968) , German History in Documents and Images.
Konkret Magazine, Wikipedia.
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