• agarorn@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Weird headline. What are post-communists?

    And is Wagenknecht really far-left? A lot of her positions suggest otherwise.

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      1 year ago

      The party ‘die Linke’ used to be ‘die Linkspartei’. Die Linkspartei was a Union of the West German party WSAG and the PDS. The PDS is the direct successor of the SED, which was THE communist party in the GDR. Since the successor parties no longer explicitly described themselves as communist, the article probably calls them post-communist

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        1 year ago

        Still a bad attempt at framing this party as something the average German shouldn’t vote for.

        This is at the moment the only party that actually tries to enact some „left“ policies. And yes, there are some crazy people there… but which party hasn’t?

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        Post communist refers to the party succession. Die Linke is the successor of the PDS (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), which fused with the WASG (Arbeit & soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative) to form Die Linke. And the PDS itself was the successor of the SED (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), which in turn was formed in East Germany by fusing the local SPD & KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands).

        But yes, Wagenknecht is an odd one, because she also holds a lot of the far right positions, very similar to the AfD. But to show more of her character, one has to also realize her party name: BSW - Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht
        She literally uses her own name for it, which I find highly narcissistic.