Saying the people that protested are responsible for the destruction of the GDR is quite short sighted imo. The GDR had a lot of internal problems, especially with party higher ups. The people where rightfully sick of this and wanted change. The fact that the party didn’t recognize this soon enough and wasn’t able to handle this by actually changing, led to the downfall.
From a philosophical standpoint it was a necessity that in a universe with physics as ours, matter one day arranges itself on such a high order, that life is created. We don’t know of any „soul“ or something similar, and we’ve found life on earth in the most extreme places. So life can’t just be a coincidence. Logically thinking that means that there exists life outside of earth too.
Now the more important question is: was does that change for us? And at least for us currently the answer is: nothing. This is not beneficial to us in our class struggle. It doesn’t help us make better strategic decisions. The youth organization in east Germany had some funny books about that, but even they came to the conclusion that this changes nothing. It’s nice to know that we are nothing special, but besides that, there is nothing we can gain from this currently.
The MLPD is not the marxist leninist party of Germany lol. It‘s a sect with really strange political views for a supposed marxist leninist Party. The DKP, the follow up organization of the illegal KPD, is the marxist Leninist party of Germany.
I hope never because the understanding that all companies are fascist collaborators is not only just wrong and has been proven wrong by the KomIntern, but it’s also bad for the movement as a whole and is actively hurting it. Capital isn’t monotonous. Different capital factions have different interests. Even in Nazi Germany there were Monopolies that didn’t want fascism.
I think that’s a wrong analysis. The AfD is not uniformly pro Russia. Its position on Russia is strongly split between the west and east sections. We have seen for over a year now, but especially within the last months, that the AfD is heavily struggling with that conflict, because that’s one of the main things keeping them from being ready for the Parlament. And we have seen those fights for power not only within the AfD, but also from the outside trying to influence the AfD. Thinking that Merz saying this is just Ment to grab some votes from the AfD, is quite a shallow analysis in my opinion.
Now this doesn’t mean Germany is suddenly becoming pro Russia. Ofcourse not. But it’s really interesting to see, that after speaking for years now about russia as a rogue terror state where all people are crazy, Merz is saying this now. In my opinion this does at least show that the German capital is rethinking its approach to world power and wants to keep another option open, in case the current strategy of being by the US side doesn’t work anymore.
We weren’t the only ones hit with termination of our bank accounts. The Rote Hilfe („red help“, think like a network of leftists of all kinds, that acts like an insurance for political repressions) also got their account terminated a few days ago. The DKP still plays one of the most important roles in the peace movement here. This debanking comes right after the informal youth organization, the SDAJ, organized a school strike against the planned mandatory military service, with a size that dwarves most school strikes in the last 2 decades. Of course the reason the bank gives is Cuba. But trying to silence one of the few organizations which can actually do something against Germanys military plans is nothing new.
Using the wall to keep GDR citizens in was definitely a big reason. But the context is more complicated. The GDR spend a ton of money on free education that was better than what could be found in the west. People that had some „low quality“ jobs before had the opportunity to become highly skilled members of society, all paid for by the state. That was a huge investment, but worth it for society. However the west targeted this specifically, giving people that went from the GDR to the west huge amounts of free cash.
Funny that they are talking about „larping“, whilst being an apparent member of the „Arbeiterbund“. The organization, that’s stuck in 1920 with all of their actions and that wants to rebuild the KPD, even though we have a literal successor party to the KPD with the DKP already. The Arbeiterbund is known to have some „interesting“ view points.
Something that hasn’t been mentioned yet: this entire move completely fucks small parties in favor of the big one seen here. The German communist party (DKP) can’t participate at all in this election because they would need to register about 2000 signatures per district to even be allowed to run in those districts. And to add to that, the German system is designed in such a way, that parties get paid by their votes. Meaning that small parties would now need to spend a lot of money without any chance to crowdfund beforehand, and wouldn’t even get that back afterward. This entire move is just a way for the capitalists to realign their priorities with the big parties and make sure, that nothing stands in the way between their grab for even more power in the next years. For anyone who is interested in reading more about this, there is this really good article from the newspaper of the DKP (it’s in German, but you could just translate it using Google Translator or something): https://www.unsere-zeit.de/wem-vertraut-das-kapital-4798734/
Ukraine Flag, Israel Flag, Part of the „Green“ Party: calls themselves leftist… I hate it here.
That’s like Netflix telling you “hey we didn’t raise our prices enough to keep up with inflation, we’ll now charge you for last 5 year’s inflation in a single payment”
Who cares what these companies think is and isn’t fair? They created this inflation for the past years, they pay for it. And besides that, why do workers need to adhere to a past contract in their current demands? Continuing the strike for a one-time inflation-payment would have been the right choice for the workers, so the union should have done so.
Normally I’d agree with you that this sucks, but aren’t they hourly? Hours reduction means pay reduction. If I was hourly, I’d want the ability to work more hours (AND obviously a higher hourly rate to begin with)
Why does it need to be one or the other? That’s what capitalists want you to think. Why can’t it be an hour reduction and a pay increase together? That’s something that would be great for everyone. Only increasing pay or only decreasing hours is always going to split workers based on their current economic standing. Doing both not only strengthens all the workers, it also positively affects their companionship.
Yeah there’s been bad inflation, but minimum, mean and median wages have NOT increased nearly as fast as they should. Hell the minimum in the US has been unchanged for decades. And plenty of people still make minimum (or less in tipped jobs).
So because the minimum, mean and median wages have NOT increased nearly as fast as they should, we should… checks notes… not fight for better pay?
Not quite sure why people here are that happy about it. If I understand this correctly then this isn’t even enough to cover current inflation, removes their right to strike for the next 6 years, has no hours-reduction, has no single payment to cover the past inflation. I don’t see how this is a win for workers. This seems like a huge win for the companies considering what else would have been possible.
11mg EEn every 14 days is a hell of a dose. I take 3mg every 7 days and am at around 200 pg/ml E2.
A bit off-topic, but is there any good communist manga that you could recommend?
I made the mistake a couple weeks ago to reply to a similar comment calling everyone who doesn’t vote for Biden because of the genocide a “redfash” and “tankie”. The amount of hatred some of them have towards other people instead of the system is insane. And the way they constantly make up new shit to “disprove” everything is too.
Saying that the democratic system of the current imperialist Germany is just as bad as the part of Germany that wanted to be socialist, is not the kind of flex you think it is. That should always be a clear victory for the socialist system. But people still protested massivly. So maybe it wasn’t as good as you think it was.