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The renegade (from the Latin re " again " and negare " deny, deny " ) is originally a renegade a religion nowadays also generalizes an apostate of a belief or value system (art, religion, ideology ).

He is a kind of resistance fighters who rejects the ruling power and the predetermined beliefs. In contrast to converts the renegade does not have to switch to a new system. In part he does in the wake passive or even active resistance.

History

Fixed term was the Renegado in medieval Spain during the Reconquest, the clashes between Christian and Muslim rulers. Here, however, he called from a Christian perspective apostate from Christianity and under Islamic occupation to Islam man who was occupied negativierend of Christian Spaniards with this word. So the Renegado refused not the ruling in his sphere of life conviction, but conformed to fit.

Etymology

The word renegade or Renegado has Latin and Spanish roots. It generally refers to a man who denies, says "No" ( negado ), and this does to ( re-) a prevailing opinion. On the other hand, with the particle "re- " in the Spanish context, the renewed negation of the earlier adoption of the Christian faith be meant.

The former etymology also does not seem to fit the historical background since the Renegado simply the ruling in his life range conviction took over, just the Islamic faith. His Christian compatriots were mostly not been able to obtain their co-religionists the Christian rule. The term renegade was thus in this use an earlier political battle cry. Even when the Christian princes had lost their wars, they were going to leave the new sovereign a potential for unrest, by those who did not like to accept the Islamic faith, so as not to apply among Christians as renegade.

Political renegades

As a political renegade people who have not given up certain Grundideologeme as class struggle, Marxism, socialism, liberalism, monarchism, nationalism, racism or anti-Semitism, but change the political camps apply.

Lenin criticized, for example, in his book entitled The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, as the social democrat Kautsky in his writings Marx into a " dozen liberals" transforms the bourgeois and proletarian democracy mixed and the illusion of a commonality between exploiters and the exploited expires, that is maintained under terms which operates erosion and the political bearing replaced.

The reason for the criticism can also be a position in a scientific dispute, such as in the historical dispute.

See also

• Renegade

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