Wilde Demokratie: Das Recht auf Protest

Wilde Demokratie: Das Recht auf Protest
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3803137403 | 128 Pages | EPUB | 0.3 MB

Acclaims for political activism should not be acts of grace, but constitutional claim. Tim Wihl explains how law could enable democracy-promoting dissent instead of prevent. "Totally stupid", Federal Chancellor Scholz called the actions of climate activists "last generation". Others even condemn the civil disobedience of the environmentalists as "terror", meanwhile against the hated protest is even treated with preventive detention. Contrary to popular belief, which describes such wild forms of protest as anti-democratic, the legal scholar Tim Wihl makes clear in his precise analysis that precisely these actions contribute decisively to the strengthening and legitimization of democracy. Wihl examines various forms of protest from adbusting to mass demonstrations to occupations and blockades. He compares the opportunities of political freedom in Germany, France, the USA or Chile. And it shows that German protest law is essentially linked to the constitution of the imperial period – and not to the progressive legacy of the revolution of 1918. Wihl decidedly advocates to help an alternative constitutional thinking to break through. Because civil disobedience is not a crime, but a democratic achievement.