Consumption and Violence
Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5845119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Sedlmaier (0000-0002-7964-6415, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 335 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Consumption and Violence (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3998/mpub.6713536 |
| OpenAlex | W4211213746 |
| ISBN | 9780472119417 |
| Open Library | OL28357361M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Detlef Siegfried, "Vom Teenager zur Pop-Revolution: Politisierungstendenzen in der west-cally more rigorous than their famous counterparts.Like them, the members of Kommune II opted for a "communal economy" with all private incomes going into a fund for communal use.The planning of consumption was also a matter of collective deliberation. 111 Department Store Arson in FrankfurtA few days after the leaflet trial, three future department store arsonists visited Kommune I. Gerd Koenen argues that the younger Andreas Baader wanted to challenge the intellectual leader of the commune, Kunzelmann, when acting out the provocative fantasy. 112 Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and two friends, Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein, travelled to Frankfurt.The next day, Ensslin and Baader went to a department store, playfully tried out a few folding chairs, and put homemade incendiary bombs into a lounge cabinet.Fire broke out in two department stores-Schneider and Kaufhof-around midnight on 2-3 April 1968.The fire did not harm anyone but caused considerable material damage, in part by triggering the sprinkling system.According to the court, damage amounted to 282,339 deutsche marks at Schneider and 390,838 deutsche marks at Kaufhof, all of it covered by insurance. 113 Newspapers had initially reported that damage totalled 1.2 million deutsche marks.The Frankfurt department stores apparently organised a "fire-watch service" for fear of "political acts of revenge."They advertised a high reward for information leading to the arrest of the arsonists. 114 Police followed lead and easily caught the four arsonists
Argument (complex analysis · Consumption · Militant · Political violence · European history and politics · Capitalism · Consumption (Economics) · Contestation · Economic conditions · Economic history · Europe · Germany · Germany (West) · Germany (west), politics and government · Germany (west), social conditions · History · Political aspects · Politics and government · politics and government · Protest movements · Radicalism · Radicalisme · Résistance au gouvernement · Resistance to Government · Social change · Social conditions · Violence politique
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |