The politicians are from BSW, which would be charitable described as tankies. The BSW splintered from the left-party some time ago and has always been VERY pro russia and reactionary.
So no, no actual leftists going to Russia, otherwise they would fall out of a window…
But it’s also worth mentioning this split was made by party members leaving and not Die Linke throwing them out or anything. Wagenknecht would still be a prominent member and likely face of the party today if she did not decide to leave on her own accord. I say this because some people think they’re far right extremists or something which is not the case at all. They’re authoritarian left because yes, that exists. Extremism is bad in any shape or form. Even when it comes from the left.
You can‘t simply throw out people in parties in Germany. There are examples where parties tried to get rid of politicians that did not fit the partie‘s views without success.
They didn‘t try despite the awful stuff she propagated and that‘s what they should be measured by. „But it probably would have failed“ is such a lazy excuse to not even try something so necessary.
I never said they should not have tried but according to your statement kicking out party members is a easy thing to do. In the case of the German left party, at the time the Sahra Wagenknecht was still a member of the party, it was even less simple as a significant portion (and that does not have to be the majority) of the members of the party supported her. In the end this is how parties work. They are not an entity with a streamlined set of values but rather consist of groups of people with „similar“ views. At some point those groups diverge to much and form new parties. So in this case there is no well-defined „they“ when you refer to the party its internal conflicts.
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The politicians are from BSW, which would be charitable described as tankies. The BSW splintered from the left-party some time ago and has always been VERY pro russia and reactionary.
So no, no actual leftists going to Russia, otherwise they would fall out of a window…
But it’s also worth mentioning this split was made by party members leaving and not Die Linke throwing them out or anything. Wagenknecht would still be a prominent member and likely face of the party today if she did not decide to leave on her own accord. I say this because some people think they’re far right extremists or something which is not the case at all. They’re authoritarian left because yes, that exists. Extremism is bad in any shape or form. Even when it comes from the left.
You can‘t simply throw out people in parties in Germany. There are examples where parties tried to get rid of politicians that did not fit the partie‘s views without success.
They didn‘t try despite the awful stuff she propagated and that‘s what they should be measured by. „But it probably would have failed“ is such a lazy excuse to not even try something so necessary.
I never said they should not have tried but according to your statement kicking out party members is a easy thing to do. In the case of the German left party, at the time the Sahra Wagenknecht was still a member of the party, it was even less simple as a significant portion (and that does not have to be the majority) of the members of the party supported her. In the end this is how parties work. They are not an entity with a streamlined set of values but rather consist of groups of people with „similar“ views. At some point those groups diverge to much and form new parties. So in this case there is no well-defined „they“ when you refer to the party its internal conflicts.
But far-left and populist left are still left? Them being extreme doesn’t make them non-left
The BSW has very few positions that you could describe as “left” at all.
Being authoritarian doesn’t make you “far left” it makes you “authoritarian”.
There are actually many debates about whether the party is really left-wing or not.