Ulrike Meinhof
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Ulrike Meinhof (October 7, 1934 – May 9, 1976) was a German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist. She was one of the founders of the Red Army Fraction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion), which is also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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- Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
- Published in “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [“From Protest to Resistance”], konkret, no. 5 (May 1968), p. 5.
- These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
- Published in "Minor Literature: Case Study: the Red Army Faction"
- The function of leadership in the guerrilla, the function of Andreas Baader in the RAF is orientation: not just to distinguish the main points from the minor ones in each situation but also to remain with the entire political context in all situations; to never lose sight, among technical and logistic details and problems, of the aim, which is the revolution.
- Published in "Minor Literature: Case Study: the Red Army Faction"
- We are acting for those who are trying to free themselves from terror and violence. And if no means other than war remains for them, then we are for their war. And we are against those who escalate their terror up to the use of nuclear weapons, something currently being discussed in regard to Vietnam.
- In the moment when you become serious about solidarity with the Vietnamese, when you become intent on weakening the American position everywhere in the world, so that the Vietnamese people derive some benefit... then I really don’t see the difference between the terrorism of the police that we have already experienced in Berlin and are threatened with now and the stormtrooper terror of the Thirties.
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- Auschwitz meant that six million Jews were killed, and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were represented as: money-Jews. Finance capital and the banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, steered the hatred of men against money and exploitation into hatred against the Jews. . . . Antisemitism is really a hatred of capitalism.
- If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
