Rudi Dutschke
Also known as Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke, Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke
German student activist (1940–1979)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 March 1940
- Died
- 24 December 1979
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Briefe an Rudi D.
- Rebellion der Studenten oder Die neue Opposition
- Jeder hat sein Leben ganz zu leben
- Ausgewählte und kommentierte Bibliographie des revolutionären Sozialismus von K. Marx bis in die Gegenwart
- Die Sowjetunion, Solschenizyn und die westliche Linke
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Film & TV
Acting · Berlin, Germany
Known for
- 70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)2020
- The History of the RAF — Self (Archive footage)2015
- Aufrecht gehen. Rudi Dutschke - Spuren1980
- The Third Generation — Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)1979
- Das ist Ihr Leben — Self1976
- Club 2 — Self1976
- Litera-Tour — Self1976
Article
Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke ( German: [ˈʁuːdi ˈdʊtʃkə]; 7 March 1940 – 24 December 1979) was a German sociologist and political activist who, until severely injured by an assassin in 1968, was a leading charismatic figure within both the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (Socialist Students Union) in West Germany and that country's broader Außerparlamentarische Opposition ("extra-parliamentary opposition").
Dutschke claimed both Christian and Marxist inspiration for a socialism that rejected both the Leninist model of party dictatorship that he had experienced as a youth in Communist East Germany, and the compromises of West German social democracy. He advocated the creation of alternative or parallel social, economic and political institutions structured on the principles of direct democracy. At the same time, he joined Moscow- and Beijing-oriented communists in hailing Third World national liberation struggles as fronts in a world-wide socialist revolution.