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A fter the World War I, every more or less considerable political crisis causes a wave of refugees. And 76 years have passed since Arendt's essay "We refugees" was published for the first time by a small Jewish publisher in New York. By today, this text is among the core texts of contemporary political philosophy and civic journalism. However, the waves of the refugees go on without end, while Arendt's harsh truth does not lose its importance. She argues that patriotism is probably the only shelter for those who has lost everything. Today, when we witness new experiences of the refugees, and refuge from the destroyed motherland, this text is to remind us why we should care about those who lost everything for no good reason.Keywords: refugees, war, politics, crisis, Jews, Europe, West, guilt, Arendt, philosophy, care ; П ісля початку Першої світової війни кожна більш-менш велика по-літична подія спричинює хвилю біженців. Минуло 76 років від того моменту, коли есе Ганни Арендт «Ми біженці» було вперше опубліковано в маленькому єврейському виданні у Нью-Йорку. За цей час твір посів місце серед канонічних текстів політичної філософії та громадянської есеїстики. Між тим хвилі біженців не стають меншими, а жорстка правда, що її виклала Ганна Арендт, не втрачає актуальности. Патріотизм, на її думку, є чи не єдиним притулком для знедолених. І сьо-годні, коли ми на власні очі можемо спостерігати досвіди біженства, а втеча зі зруйнованого рідного краю стає для нас чимось тривіяльним – цей текст покликаний нагадати нам, чому ми маємо бути уважними до тих, хто втратив усе, і втратив не з власної вини. Ключові слова: біженці, війна, політика, криза, єврей, Европа, Захід, про-вина, Арендт, філософія, турбота

First, we do not like being treated us to 'refugees'. We baptize us 'newcomers' or 'immigrants'. Our newspapers are intended to 'Americans of German language' and, to my knowledge, there is not and there has never been an organization founded on the Hitler regime persecuted whose name could imply that its members were of 'refugees'. Adapted from the source document.

As opposed to philosophy, theology and natural sciences, for which only the singular Man exists, for political theory the decisive fact is the plurality of men. Politics is preoccupied with common and mutual being of different men. It is created among men and established as their connectedness. Freedom exists only in the authentic interspace of politics. We are saved from that freedom in the "necessity of history", which is a revolting absurdity. When one wishes in our time to speak about politics, one must start with the prejudice towards it. The prejudice accurately reflect the truly existing contemporary situation precisely in its political aspects, and suggest that we have ended up in a situation in which we do not quite or do not yet know how to move politically. The prejudice towards politics are manifest in the notion that national politics is made up of lies and deception by corrupt interests and corrupt ideology, while foreign politics hovers between hollow propaganda and brute force. This causes a flight into powerlessness, a desperate desire for men in general to be deprived of the freedom to act. Politics is, always and everywhere, preoccupied with illuminating and dissolving prejudice. If one wishes to dissolve prejudice, one must first discover the past judgment contained therein, i.e. actually show their contents of truth. This is the task of the faculty of judgment, but not as mere capability to subject the individual regularly and adequately to the general that corresponds to it and regarding which there is agreement, but as judgment directly and with no standard. The loss of standard, which truly determines the modern world in its facticity and cannot be annulled by any return to the good, old tradition or any arbitrary setting up of new values and standards, is therefore a catastrophe of the moral world only if one presupposes that men would in fact be completely unable to judge things in and of themselves, and that their faculty of judgment is insufficient for original judgment. Politics is always centered on care for the world organized in this or some different way, without which those who care and who are political, think that life is not worth living. Where men come together, the world always breaks through between them, and all human actions take place in this interspace. Adapted from the source document.

Der Beitrag stellt den Reprint eines Artikels dar, den die Verfasserin anlässlich des Erscheinens der Rosa Luxemburg-Biographie von Peter Nettl 1967 verfasst hat. Die Verfasserin lobt Nettl dafür, dass er eine sehr umfassende Biographie in englischem Stil - umfänglich, wohl dokumentiert mit zahlreichen Fußnoten und Zitaten - über das Leben dieser außergewöhnlichen Frau verfasst hat. Sie spricht sich vor allem positiv über Nettls Aufarbeitung des Konflikts zwischen der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Polens und Lithauens - der Rosa Luxemburg als Gründungsmitglied angehörte - und Lenins Partei "neuen Typs" aus. (ICEÜbers)