Sezession is a journal of the intellectual Right. Our editors and authors think through their subjects from a right-wing perspective. They do so at a high level, and through their precision and their unmistakable tone they have made the journal an authoritative voice in Germany.
One votes for parties out of self-defense, not out of convinced enthusiasm.
That is how an entire generation in Germany now relates to politics. No leaders, no role models, no faith that anything will change, whoever wins.
@lichtstifter|s diagnosis is bleak. But he also sees who is not merely waiting: the young who have stopped believing in the sacred cows of postwar ideology, and who are, for the first time in decades, looking for answers on the Right.
Essay in the first reply.
To be young in Germany in 2026 is to expect the end of things.
Not the keepers of the fire, for it went out long ago. Not the kindlers of a new flame, for there is no wood. Dwellers of a cave, waiting for an endless rain to stop.
Our author @lichtstifter, youtuber and himself a Millennial, on a generation that votes out of self-defense, and on the radical few who have finished with the postwar order.
Essay in the first reply.
Sezession is a journal of the intellectual Right. Our editors and authors think through their subjects from a right-wing perspective. They do so at a high level, and through their precision and their unmistakable tone they have made the journal an authoritative voice in Germany.
Sezession sets the terms. Much of what seems, and is, fundamental, uncompromising, non-negotiable and combative in the AfD and in other projects of resistance was first thought through, put into words, and fed into the debate in our journal. One could not ask more of a metapolitical journal!