"The students do not want a new Rudi Dutschke."

For next week, students and pupils are planning a major strike formation. Even a dispute and strike experienced professor from Berlin mixes with political scientist Peter Grottian, 67 In the interview, says the activist altlinke why a bit of tinder to be already.

 

blogs ONLINE: Professor Grottian, pupils and students have called for a strike. What has an old professor how to create?

Grottian: An old professor like me is still interested in education policy, I teach and examine even after my retirement yet, and the conditions at the universities simply calling out to protest. I have been preparing the September 2008 accompanied here and there where a council.

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Peter Grottian was from 1979 to 2007 Professor of Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. Stir with protests as he announced fare, with whom he discussed the abolition of social tickets in Berlin wanted to prevent. The 67 - year-old repeatedly caused displeasure with conservative politicians in Berlin and became a few years ago, even the sight of the Constitutional.

blogs ONLINE: Do today's students tuition of a strike-experienced defenders like you?

Grottian: Students do not need a professor like me, but it distinguishes this generation, that they accept people like me. This is one feature of this strike that the students not exclude anyone. You do not among themselves, but together with the protesting students and unions and other related social movements.

blogs ONLINE: The pupils and students want in more than 100 cities strike. Can such a comprehensive action work?

Grottian: This generation of students is an extremely sensitive sense: You do not want power clusters, but has been very conscious for a decentralized organization of the strike decision. The students do not want a new Rudi Dutschke or no new Lora Dutschke. You want a strike of many faces - and not a top bloke, top or upper activists strategists.

blogs ONLINE: And what is it?

Grottian: The strike is aimed against abuses of the entire education system, such as the chronic under-funding of universities, the economization of education and calls for the abolition of Bachelor and Master in their present form. A true contrast to the official educational policy, then, in the billion dollar business and
Federal programs and made only the research elite and the physical infrastructure of educational institutions operated without the specific school and study situation. It is improving but nothing, absolutely nothing, if you only replace the toilet by paying nothing for learning from person to person makes.

blogs ONLINE: Do you really think that the students en masse to the streets?

Grottian: This is the big question. The current situation is good: The discontent at the universities is very large. Many students have noticed that the University has only one
Hamsterrad is where they retreat to retreat, from test to test rush. But you should also already be honest and say: There are both among the students as well as students mobilize internal problems. The forms of grassroots mobilization - it works out poorly. That one, for example, invites professors in their courses for half an hour on the strike to talk, which is too rarely made, although certainly half the professors very
critical to the bachelor's / master's programs stands.

blogs ONLINE: Why?

Grottian: There is certainly a fear of defeat. That the fellow said: Is not out yet, we continue the matter further. The claims in this strike are very largely, this is very positive, but average students often have a very pragmatic view of life. Therefore, it is difficult for them to win. This is so that the students and the students are so wedged into their power systems. In their daily struggle for survival, they have their heads no longer free, and perhaps say: such a strike is nice, but I must now urgently for the next exam learn. Many can not imagine that learning and education could be different because each lacks imagination and utopia.

blogs ONLINE: How do the strike ends because they arouse imagination?

Grottian: During the preparations, there were many discussions about the correct forms of protest. Fairly normal forms such as demonstrations or acts of civil disobedience? Now it will give both, in addition to the demonstrations around a fictitious bank raid. The conviction has been repeatedly argued by the students: A strike may prefer it not be. Precisely when to strike on Friday, it is important that students in conflict with the Kultusministerkonferenz also unsubscribe. When the Minister of Culture of the students demanded the two interlocutors refuse, it could come to a Umzingelungsaktion. A bit of tinder must be just now.