The AfD looks set to take power in a German state for the first time. In a DW exclusive, the front-runner in Saxony-Anhalt discusses plans to detain immigrants and revamp the school system, and relations with Russia.
Hitler had 33% of the vote in the last free and fair election, before he seized the country. And yet he managed to seize the country. Never be naive!
It was thanks to the corrupt and senile Hindenburg who was in the pockets of the military, thanks to the irresponsible racist Papen who put capital before people, and thanks to collaboration from ““national”” ““conservatives””.
The KPD refused to cooperate with the SPD, because they viewed the SPD negatively due to the SPD’s leaders having crushed a communist liberation movement in the aftermath of WWI. Personally, I generally support both the SPD and 1919-1928 KPD, but that is the one big criticism I have of the SPD; a council democracy would have been better, than the path the Weimar Republic walked.
In the face of fascism, all must cooperate against it. Class consciousness must be maximised, and that is reached by talking with those farmers, with those with less education, by making them feel like they’re heard; we should not blame them, but rather focus our solidarity upon breaking the neoliberal and neofascist movement.
That was completely different, German democracy was in complete shambles and the country disillusioned.
Comparing this situation to what happened back then is like comparing apples to oranges.
If it is, then how is AfD, an explicitly fascist and anti-democratic party, so big?
In the face of fascism, the answer to tackling it, isn’t “It’s totally different”, but “Let’s get people to regain trust in democracy”. And that starts by tackling homelessness, housing costs, wage theft, corporatocracy, deplatforming all antidemocratic groups, and so on.
Biden took a lot of measures that helped the American public, but the narrative was skewed against him due to large corporations and reactionaries opposing his policies.
Because of immigrants. People believe immigrants are bad for their country, and they feel they get benefits at the cost of native Germans.
It’s all about Xenophobia, just like Brexit.
Absolutely not, Nazism was seen as protection against communism, there is no such need today.
Also today AfD is extremely disliked by the rest of the population.
Nazism won before WW2 because Germany was disillusioned, they felt unfairly treated by the world, and their democracy was failing.
You can’t point to any of those mechanisms today. Today it’s almost 100% xenophobia, and for some east Germans, they feel unfairly treated by west Germany, despite it was West Germany that footed the bill, and West Germany and EU have invested billions in east Germany.
The East Germans were just not aware how far behind they were.
Tell that to those fascists that somehow still think they’re in the Cold War, like in the US, where socialists and communists are routinely despised and opposed, be it through union-busting, arrests of protesters, firebombing Black Panthers, et cetera. Nowadays you still see it but it’s less overt.
It’s not just xenophobia - otherwise, a lot of leftists would’ve voted for left-wing parties that opposed immigration. And those do exist.
Hitler had 33% of the vote in the last free and fair election, before he seized the country. And yet he managed to seize the country. Never be naive!
It was thanks to the corrupt and senile Hindenburg who was in the pockets of the military, thanks to the irresponsible racist Papen who put capital before people, and thanks to collaboration from ““national”” ““conservatives””.
The KPD refused to cooperate with the SPD, because they viewed the SPD negatively due to the SPD’s leaders having crushed a communist liberation movement in the aftermath of WWI. Personally, I generally support both the SPD and 1919-1928 KPD, but that is the one big criticism I have of the SPD; a council democracy would have been better, than the path the Weimar Republic walked.
In the face of fascism, all must cooperate against it. Class consciousness must be maximised, and that is reached by talking with those farmers, with those with less education, by making them feel like they’re heard; we should not blame them, but rather focus our solidarity upon breaking the neoliberal and neofascist movement.
That was completely different, German democracy was in complete shambles and the country disillusioned.
Comparing this situation to what happened back then is like comparing apples to oranges.
If it is, then how is AfD, an explicitly fascist and anti-democratic party, so big?
In the face of fascism, the answer to tackling it, isn’t “It’s totally different”, but “Let’s get people to regain trust in democracy”. And that starts by tackling homelessness, housing costs, wage theft, corporatocracy, deplatforming all antidemocratic groups, and so on.
Biden took a lot of measures that helped the American public, but the narrative was skewed against him due to large corporations and reactionaries opposing his policies.
Not to handwave away.
Because of immigrants. People believe immigrants are bad for their country, and they feel they get benefits at the cost of native Germans.
It’s all about Xenophobia, just like Brexit.
So how is it different?
Then: Large socioeconomic inequity, institutional distrust, anti-intellectualism, Jews as scapegoat
Now: Large socioeconomic inequity, institutional distrust, anti-intellectualism, immigrants and queers as scapegoat
Same shit, different century.
Absolutely not, Nazism was seen as protection against communism, there is no such need today.
Also today AfD is extremely disliked by the rest of the population.
Nazism won before WW2 because Germany was disillusioned, they felt unfairly treated by the world, and their democracy was failing.
You can’t point to any of those mechanisms today. Today it’s almost 100% xenophobia, and for some east Germans, they feel unfairly treated by west Germany, despite it was West Germany that footed the bill, and West Germany and EU have invested billions in east Germany.
The East Germans were just not aware how far behind they were.
Tell that to those fascists that somehow still think they’re in the Cold War, like in the US, where socialists and communists are routinely despised and opposed, be it through union-busting, arrests of protesters, firebombing Black Panthers, et cetera. Nowadays you still see it but it’s less overt.
It’s not just xenophobia - otherwise, a lot of leftists would’ve voted for left-wing parties that opposed immigration. And those do exist.
No, there is much more.