Heinz Bierbaum, a former deputy chair of Germany’s Left Party, Die Linke, discusses the recent disappointing European Parliament results, the rise of the right, the possible collapse of the Merkel government, and the Greens as a new mainstream party
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Well blow me down with a feather, Real News is a left wing supporter. Bye.
The way he answers the questions, shows clearly the desolate situation of 'die LINKE'.
Not one radical Idea.
No Vision of how to make things better 'tomorrow' for the most oppressed and what would the benefit of that for the 'middle class'.
No clear commitment to the urgent things that really matter, social and environmentally.
Too much thinking of coalitions, tactical moves, to be ready to go to bed with the green Party, that really is a NATO-WAR-Party etc.
Plus the results of what the people have seen in the federal states where 'die LINKE' is in government positions, as there is nothing but disappointment.
The behavior of the leading people of 'die LINKE' also has declined the little bit trust & hope that people had in the party.
It's focused on rubbish (like gender discussion and a silly 'open border' position) and personal attacking real left people among their own.
conclusion: not all that declares them self as left on the outside, has left inside
Open door immigration, which the left supports, only means depressed prevailing wages and strained social services. The "far right" AfD, which is a center-right party, talks about these things, calls for restricted immigration, and workers listen. The left is choking on its multicultural orthodoxy, ignores social realities because it is no longer based on the working classes, but the urban middle class. Its decline is therefore inevitable.
Germany didn't suffer a recession, hence has not seen a resurgence of the Left. The Right Wing surge is basically down to the immigrant crisis and has little to do with economic factors.
Germany is saying Nein to mass immigration, especially from Islamic countries. Merkel's gamble could've worked out, if not for an increase in Islamic terrorism. The Berlin Truck attack probably gave the Right a huge push in the polls
God help us if this what the left looks like
Q: Why did the Left do so poorly?
A: Blah, blah, blah, ze social problems, blah, evade, blah, ze social problems, blah, blah, social justice.
Good riddance.
The most disturbing thing he says is " we must present ourselves as", rather than actually adapting to what the people actually want. This is the old bait-and-switch. Tell the people what they want to hear, while serving the exact same dish. It's the same on the left or right.
I don't see how they can be for maintaining the EU and simultaneously socialist. They need to choose a lane.
flooding your countries with immigrants isn't a winning strategy? who knew??
So far Germany was never friendly to the left
I think the Greens are the true left. Social Justice includes facing the climate crisis immediately or we all die.
15:43 But they're NOT discovering that they have to move left. That's the problem.
What the heck is with the volume at Real News Network? I always have to turn it up full, and it's still so quiet that I can barely hear what these guys are saying.
To many immigrants have invaded Germany same as the USA.
They failed to gain traction because their immigration policy has effectively wiped out the population.
Pathological altruism is a terrible economic strategy😕
Since Germany lost WW2, they just can't get off their knees. They have become a colony of the USA and so is of Europe. Europeans are now known as people without balls. That pipeline between Russia and Germany may be completed but I am willing to bet not one drop of oil or gas or anything related to energy will flow through those pipes. The US will make sure that their vassal purchase their energy needs from them at a higher price. Remember when Merkel found out the US was monitoring her phone, instead of raising hell she gave Obama a big hug.
Had Germany won the war the world wouldn't be plagued with war mongering, poverty, oppression, apartheid and ofcoarse usury.
The lines are blurred between left and right
Thank you for this very interesting interview about topics which I seldom encounter, even on the internet (the television networks wouldn't touch the subject, on the slowest news day). I look to the Real News for an eclectic mix of background information on, and open minded exploration of, the issues surrounding the events that comprise our daily "news."
empower fascism in America, and you empower fascism worldwide….who would have thought?
Please… get representation from the German Greens, to allow them to respond to this gentleman's opinions.
Capitalism is in crisis, Social Democratic parties have failed to address neoliberal policies, and people are looking for alternatives. Liberials apologize for the far-right while US and EU imperialism supress the message of any group left of current Social Democratic type parties.
The left, the actual left, needs to remember that its job is to represent the oppressed working class, as well as other suppressed groups, and deliver history's avenging stroke. There is no guarantee that history will inevitably result in socialism, because if the oppressed class cannot overthrow its oppressors, both oppressor and oppressed will perish. So the left cannot rest.
Uploaded 3h ago and already there's a hot mess of right and far right propaganda in comments.
oh well right-wing hate spammers flood the commentary of this left-wing media, because they got a social media message from their leader. That is something the Leftists don't do and I like them for that. That is a general problem, they play fair while all others play unfair. Not saying they should also play unfair.
i'll solve you the riddle: since the most important figurehead of the german left party, dr. wagenknecht, retired the party has no competent voice on economic policy reinforcing the stereotype of the party of only caring about social (justice) policy, tax-and-spend measures & even open borders. the left needs to make the case for its alternative economic model, otherwise working & middle class voters will remain sceptical of the left's ability to run the national economy.
Die Linke is just another neo-liberal Party, that´s the reason, nothing else. They are the SPD 2.0, just traitors to the people and the people understood that.
European Green Parties are getting co-opted by Neoliberal elites like liberal financier George Soros and Neoliberal organisations like the EU to co-opt the movement and fool young people into supporting a hidden form of austerity in carbon taxes which will only affect normal working class communities while the elite who claim to care about climate are jetting around the world.
1) they have no billions like the right-wing, because they doubt capitalists
2) they want socialism without ecological awareness
3) transatlantic CIA agent saboteurs
and yes their parlamentary work is sometimes really good. I don't know the word, but their requests to the government for information, which they then publish helps a lot. Unfortunately again 1) comes up again, so hardly anybody know, what they do and they get suppressed in the mainstream media. They also slept on getting big on social media, though if you look at the AfD, they had at the beginning some conspiracy Alex Jones types. Now they get help from huge advertisement companies and get from their donors as said millions of Euro.
Because they are responsible of the Islamic immigration mess?
the real news great work maybe you can give tulsi gabbard air time we need and want peace America is great
MOSTLY because radical centrist (Merkel) open borders policy is falsely ascribed to the "left", even though "classical left" actually against it because it sabotages unions, wages and does not support the worker movement in the original countries from where people are migrating.
Interestingly enough, radical centrism (Merkel, again) supports regime change coups and proxy wars like in Libya and Syria that facilitate both legal and illegal migration to benefit oligarchy's goal to fight the achievements of the actual left.