Outgoing Chancellor Scholz cautioned against any rushed decisions after Germany's intelligence service designated the AfD party as "right-wing extremist."
This isn’t about left or right it’s whether or not a party’s aims include dismantling democracy. You can be as left or right as you want as long as you aren’t in bed with tyranny. Quoth the BVerfG:
The free democratic basic order can be defined as an order which excludes any form of tyranny or arbitrariness and represents a governmental system under a rule of law, based upon self-determination of the people as expressed by the will of the existing majority and upon freedom and equality. The fundamental principles of this order include at least: respect for the human rights given concrete form in the Basic Law, in particular for the right of a person to life and free development; popular sovereignty; separation of powers; responsibility of government; lawfulness of administration; independence of the judiciary; the multi-party principle; and equality of opportunities for all political parties.
to every complex problem there is a simple, easy to understand solution that is wrong.
Yes. One simple and wrong solution to the paradox of tolerance, for example, is to ignore it.
And so is the BVerfG or they would have banned the NPD instead of saying “yeah they want to abolish democracy but are too small and insignificant to achieve it, so we won’t ban them”. They did lose state funding, though.
This isn’t about left or right it’s whether or not a party’s aims include dismantling democracy. You can be as left or right as you want as long as you aren’t in bed with tyranny. Quoth the BVerfG:
Yes. One simple and wrong solution to the paradox of tolerance, for example, is to ignore it.
I feel like we’re on the same page, I’m just cautious about the results of outrigyt banning a political party.
And so is the BVerfG or they would have banned the NPD instead of saying “yeah they want to abolish democracy but are too small and insignificant to achieve it, so we won’t ban them”. They did lose state funding, though.