Their pessimistic outlook led them to suggest they would "emigrate to the Bahamas", in an argument to Knut Mellenthin [de], a prominent spokesman for the majority faction.

Gradually the authors started a tendency towards the positions of Freiburg Initiative Socialist forum - relying on critical theory, especially that of Theodor W. Adorno.

[1] The core values of the magazine are that criticism of capitalism is only "emancipatory" if it is based on a theoretical insight into the "fetishism" of the capitalist relations of production and if the progressive achievements of liberal bourgeois society, namely the emancipation of the individual from primitive life forms and collectives, is affirmed and carried further.

Fetishised critique of capitalism, which attacks the sphere of circulation (questions of distributive justice, moral protest against exploitative behavior, the pursuit of values of solidarity within communities), on the other hand, is criticized as "racist" and "anti-Semitic."

The intensification of the conflict in the Middle East led to the Bahamas' editorial board increasingly representing Islamists as "jihadist" enemies of modern civilization, comparing Islamic thought structures and organizations with those of fascism and Nazism, eventually resulting in open endorsement of the United States and the war on terror.