#title Last writings of Ulrike.
#subtitle Translations and quotes by Ulrike Meinhof
#LISTtitle Ulrike Meinhof text
#author Anonymous 
#SORTauthors Ulrike Meinhof
#SORTtopics Ulrike, Meinhof, Revolutionary, action, raf, germany, writings, text, last, liberation, anarchism, communism, socialism
#source Letzte texte von Ulrike pamphlet, Last writings of Ulrike, publication; no copyrights,anonymous
#date 1976
#notes Last writings of Ulrike Meinhof, Original manuscript of Ulrike; Der Metropolen Guerilla, letters from the Stammheim process. “Letzte texte von Ulrike”, 1976.
#lang en
#DELETED unpublised for now, pending discussion as seems out of place


<strong>WRITINGS AND QUOTES FROM ULRIKE MEINHOF</strong>

On; Social Anarchy, communism and revolutionary action.

Introduction; “Because we should never hurt others and the innocent in a social liberation process, because we all feel pain, because all blood is red and the Earth not flat”

Ulrike Meinhof has often been called an anarchist by media and RAF members were portraited as anarchist on wanted posters.

She did express her sympathy and suport for anarchist individuals and groups, freedom movements, for a social revolution in general but above all Ulrike was also a believer in the ‘proletariat’, may it be in her own vision of it.

Ulrike worked as a journalist for a German leftish magazine called ‘Konkret’ and was involved in the Oktober revolution. In 1970 she co-founded the Raf, the revolutionary front; Rote Armee Fraktion (aka Red Army).

The name can also be seen as a gimmick on the English Raf; the ‘Royal Air Force’, that once fought against nazi Germany.

Ulrike was a communist, more than a ‘social-anarchist’ in her mind and writings. Often she writes on the situation in Russia, China, Palestina and on people like Lenin and Marx.

One of the differences between the ‘guerilla communist revolutionaries’ and ‘social-anarchists’ is ofcourse their belief in- or rejection (as anarchists do) of a state power in control or a ‘revolutionary govenment’.

But beyond this (important) difference there is ofcourse the ‘same’ struggle for a more social way,  For liberty, equality and solidarity for all the people.

(A reason why I added these texts, translations I made from some of her writings in German language as a contribution to this open library. I did my best to translate it fully correct but did not do it by a computer translation programm.)

I find the writings and letters of Ulrike interesting and passionate, also in the frame of social anarchism. Ulrike Meinhof was a devoted person and willing to take action on the matters she found important with good intensions, to liberate the people and herself from capitalism and imperialism. For a social revolution and against the opression of the people. Ulrike became a ‘revolutionary icon’ to many. I did however not translate these texts to glamourize all the Raf actions or to idolize Ulrike.

The following texts and parts of her letters are written during her process in the Stammheim prison.

Ulrike Meinhof died in prison, the same night as two other Raf co-founders; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. Officials claim it was a collective and planned suicide, others say it is murder.

<strong>Quotes and parts of her writings- The last writings of Ulrike/ Letzte texte von Ulrike.</strong>

Titles of the original writings; Orginalmanuskript Ulrike Meinhof, “Psychologsiche kriegsfuhrung”, “Der Metropolen Guerilla”, from the discussion Stammheim-begin May, 1976, “Oktober revolution- 3<sup>th</sup> International/ 3. Internationale”, Letter from Ulrike to Hanna Krabbe.

<strong>“The masses are willing for rebellion but often totally unaware. They want to free themselves but do not know where to begin”</strong>

“Objection is when I say; this doesn’t suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn’t suit me never happens again.”

“We are the offspring of metropolitan annihilation and destruction, of the war of all against all, of the conflict of each individual with every other individual, of a system governed by fear, of the compulsion to produce, of the profit of one to the detriment of others, of the seperation of people in to men and women, young and old, sick and healthy, foreigners and Germans, and of the struggle for prestige. Where do we come from? From the isolation in individual housing blocks, from the suburban concrete cities, from prison cells, from the asylums and special units, from media brainwashing, from consumerism, from corporal punishment, from te ideology of non-violence, from depression, from illness, from degradation, from humiliation of human beings, from all the people exploited by imperialism”

“We come from here; out of the brutality, of the humiliation and disruption processes, out of the war of all against all. The competition of everybody against everybody. The system in wich the feeling of fear, the stress rules, of -one living on the costs of another-, the dividing of people..”

“Till we will, every one of us see the necessity of liberation of imperialism, the need for an anti-capitalist war, has understood and does understand that nothing is lost with destroying this system in an armed warfare, but everything to be won: the collective liberation, life, humanity, identity; matters of the people, the masses, the factory workers, the handicapted, the prisoners, the students, the bottom classes of society, the freedom movements of the developing countries, wich is all our case; armed anti-imperialist resistance is the case of the people, the masses and vice versa. Also when at first it brings a long and hard process of the development of the militairy-political offensive of the guerilla, so that the uprising of civil battle can become real, shall become reality.”

“The idea of a psychologic war to set up the people against the Guerilla, is to isolate the Guerilla from the people. It is; the ‘material”, real purpose of the revolution, wich it is about -freedom from the rule of imperialism, of occupied areas, of colonialism and neo-colonialism, of militairy dictatorship, exploitation and facism. This is done by personification and psychological means to disturb, to mystify, to make the understandable make no sense, to let the rational seem irrational, the humanity of revolutionaries look unhuman. The method is; hatred, lies, dirt, racism, manipulation, mobilisation of the unconsience fears of the people...”

“The Chinese attempt in the sixties to use the Sino-sowjetunion conflict as a conflict between ‘white communism’ and the communism of the ‘black, yellow and red people’ in Latin-America, Africa, Asia was if we look back, an attempt to take over, stranglehold the strong tradition of the ’3<sup>rd</sup> International’ for the case of China. This while the Chinese foreign politics do not organise these colourful freedom movements, but instead neutralises and stops them by supporting reactionary regimes like the one of Bandareike in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) against the freedom movements..”

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