Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth – DW – 02/08/2025
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The Left Party says "there shouldn't be any billionaires." With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to implement it.

The Left Party says “there shouldn’t be any billionaires.” With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to implement it.

  • remon@ani.social
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    2 months ago

    in an environment where we have: fascists at 20%

    There is also the enviornement where we have fascists invading Europe and they need to be stopped now. The AfD won’t get into power this election, so there is 4 more years to sort them out.

    Weighing a further destruction of the economy, and a further rightward shift, up against an idealistic maybe naive position on foreign politics I mean come on.

    Right. Not sure what this “destruction of the economy” but anyway, the foreign politics aspect is massivly more important. “maybe naive”. That an understatement.

    If you don’t get why NATO might be bad maybe brush up on Afghanistan and Iraq.

    I’m well aware. But it’s honestly irrelevant. Right now we need NATO for European security and a party that can’t see that is either in Putin’s pocket or incompetently naive.

    The actual read of their NATO position btw. Is closer to the the EU is already a military alliance with strength, and the US (+five eyes) is an unreliable/ imperialistic partner against which the EU should also strengthen itself. Largely they see Russia as worse(or at least equally bad) for the moment, but maybe not forever.

    You sure? Because the actual actual read of their NATO position is that they want it disbanded and replaced wih an security alliance the includes Russia.

    “Wir fordern die Auflösung der NATO und ihre Ersetzung durch ein kollektives Sicherheitssystem unter Beteiligung Russlands, das Abrüstung als ein zentrales Ziel hat.”

    soruce: https://www.die-linke.de/partei/programm/ (under 4.6).

    Don’t get me wrong, I’d I love to vote the greens in two weeks (Habeck’s Ukraine position has been solid), but only if there is no chance of red/red/green (which looks good so far).