This is misinformation by the Bild (the most reactionary bullshit rag in Germany).
In their official statement the Left talk about capping food prices in general and just names Döner as an example (there’s literally one sentence about it). They also talk about capping rent prices and increasing social spending.
It’s a pretty standard and toothless statement by them, but Bild took that one sentence and made up bullshit about them wanting to subsidise Döner - RT just ran with it I guess.
I’m not trying to defend the current state of the Left, but this is ridiculous misinformation.
Thanks for the clarification. I figured it was something like this when i read it was Die Linke. Price caps on basic goods are fine but without larger policy changes this is just a bandaid. They are still just treating the symptom and not the disease. What would really help is actually having a sane policy with regards to energy and Russia to stop the deindustrialization and unavoidable inflation that comes along with that.
Yeah, I completely agree. But I don’t believe that Die LInke is the party to realise all that anymore. Neither will be BSW I think…
We do have a good party in the DKP, but even if they managed to get close to 5% by some arcane miracle they would be banned faster than they could say “Wer hat uns verraten?”.
I agree. It remains to be seen how well BSW will do in the upcoming elections but one can hope that they will at least siphon off some votes from the mainstream parties. And i like the DKP but i don’t even know if they will be on the ballot in many places. I am not optimistic about the electoral situation. At the moment direct action is what is most needed. The more the state tries to crack down, the more protests and occupations we need to organize. And it needs to extend outside of the traditional protest spaces like universities and into the actual street and the workplace. As for the possibility of a ban, we shouldn’t be afraid of such a scenario but we must start preparing in a timely fashion.
Legally permitting opposition parties but regulating them is a classic tool of bourgeois dictatorship for controlling dissent and preventing radicalism. Therefore in the right circumstances a ban can be beneficial for those who want to overthrow the system as it frees a party from the shackles of “respectability” that are imposed on it in order to be allowed to legally exist and stand for election. The task of a revolutionary organization is to build the movement and its connections to the masses to the point that when the ban comes, when it is time to go underground, it will not cripple us but further radicalize both the organization itself and the general population.
This is misinformation by the Bild (the most reactionary bullshit rag in Germany).
In their official statement the Left talk about capping food prices in general and just names Döner as an example (there’s literally one sentence about it). They also talk about capping rent prices and increasing social spending.
It’s a pretty standard and toothless statement by them, but Bild took that one sentence and made up bullshit about them wanting to subsidise Döner - RT just ran with it I guess.
I’m not trying to defend the current state of the Left, but this is ridiculous misinformation.
Thanks for the clarification. I figured it was something like this when i read it was Die Linke. Price caps on basic goods are fine but without larger policy changes this is just a bandaid. They are still just treating the symptom and not the disease. What would really help is actually having a sane policy with regards to energy and Russia to stop the deindustrialization and unavoidable inflation that comes along with that.
Yeah, I completely agree. But I don’t believe that Die LInke is the party to realise all that anymore. Neither will be BSW I think… We do have a good party in the DKP, but even if they managed to get close to 5% by some arcane miracle they would be banned faster than they could say “Wer hat uns verraten?”.
It really is dire in this country at the moment.
I agree. It remains to be seen how well BSW will do in the upcoming elections but one can hope that they will at least siphon off some votes from the mainstream parties. And i like the DKP but i don’t even know if they will be on the ballot in many places. I am not optimistic about the electoral situation. At the moment direct action is what is most needed. The more the state tries to crack down, the more protests and occupations we need to organize. And it needs to extend outside of the traditional protest spaces like universities and into the actual street and the workplace. As for the possibility of a ban, we shouldn’t be afraid of such a scenario but we must start preparing in a timely fashion.
Legally permitting opposition parties but regulating them is a classic tool of bourgeois dictatorship for controlling dissent and preventing radicalism. Therefore in the right circumstances a ban can be beneficial for those who want to overthrow the system as it frees a party from the shackles of “respectability” that are imposed on it in order to be allowed to legally exist and stand for election. The task of a revolutionary organization is to build the movement and its connections to the masses to the point that when the ban comes, when it is time to go underground, it will not cripple us but further radicalize both the organization itself and the general population.