Romantisches Österreich

Noch eine Anstrengung, wenn ihr Republikaner sein wollt! Dolmancé (1795)

Abstract

The essay on the political situation in Austria after the general elections argues that the Jörg Haider-Movement, instead of being a fascist movement in the traditional sense, is a romantic protest-movement — romantic in the strict sense of the word.

Mobilizing the latent aggression of people against the rigid and political paralysed “proportion-democracy” of the two former big parties by calculated verbal violations of taboos, Haider and his followers delegitimate and undermine the historically outdated postwar order of the Republic. Denouncing them as “fascist” only allows their opponents the pocketing of a moral surplus.