Opinions on Sahra Wagenknecht? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I’ve only learned about her today, and I found [https://apnews.com/article/germany-politics-wagenknecht-new-party-4afbec16f56bbacc46629771263398b8](this article, which despite being liberal, doesn’t do a good job of making her sound scary and evil.) (a lil outdated tho)Are there good resources of her policies and political stances, everything I look up just says she’s “leftist” and I’m wondering what kind. It sounds positive because people are calling her “authoritarian left” aka actual functional left

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[-] CamaradaJeronimo@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I find that the "xenophobic" or "anti-immigration" claims against her and her party seem to be way overblown, e.g., look at the sheer number of first generation Germans in high positions of the party (if I remember correctly, Sahra herself is the daughter of an Iranian immigrant). Of course we've seen a bunch of self-hating grifters on the right with similar backgrounds, but if you actually read what is said in the manifesto, it doesn't seem to be rooted in that kind of bigotry. I'm not German, neither do I live in Germany, so I might be missing some extra context and possible dog whistles.

When talking about immigration, sometimes we on the left fall into the mistake of promoting policies that only help capitalist exploitation while disguising it as progressive action. It's a tough balancing act and that's how I interpreted her party's take. Maybe I'm missing something more problematic that she has said before. Also if, I remember correctly, in the manifesto they talk positively about refugees.

That being said I find her takes on "wokeism", COVID and "idpolitics" a bit more concerning. I understand being tired of some parties that lib it up and sideline other struggles, but this are essential causes that cannot be separated from the whole proletariat fight. Overall I've a positive view on her, hopefully we can get a better picture of where the party actually aligns when their actual platform is released.

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

what's with everyone and their mother (even leftists smh) being so fucking socially conservative and socially right-leaning these days? jesus

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago

You can thank liberal parties for rainbow washing their horrible policies and hiding enlarging the reserve army of labour behind "open borders" for that. When people the the impression tha their governments don't give a shit about big problems affecting them in favor of cosmetic stuff like geneder neutral bathrooms here and there, they direct their anger accordingly. Is it misplaced anger? Yes, it should soley go to the government, but that requires free capacities to think things through. Many are placed in such precarious positions that that flatout are requiring all their capabilities just to survive.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

https://hexbear.net/post/2034700

made a big post on this

[-] funky_tomatoe@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago

She's smeared heavily in the media, who go full horseshoe theory on her. From what I've gathered so far most of her positions seem pretty decent, but I'm still a bit sceptical of her since I haven't looked into her too much. I'd be very interested in hearing others comrades opinions on her, especially some of her controversial stances that made her leave DieLinke.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

https://hexbear.net/post/2034700

made a big post on this

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Mostly positive. I think her party is a good step towards true leftism and I think that she could get a lot of votes. But she's a little conservative on some points sadly.

[-] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 7 months ago

If anything, she could slow down AfD in the east

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Glad that she’s at least against Sanctions on Russia but I’ll be sure to see what conservative points she may have

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

She is the least objectionable political figure in German politics at the moment that has any chance of making an impact. No she is not a communist and yes she has a number of less than ideal and sometimes downright bizarre positions on some issues in ways which overlap with those of the anti-establishment right (e.g. on certain aspects of how Covid was handled, which btw we communists also think was severely mishandled but in a different way than the right does), but until a better alternative comes along or until the DKP starts gaining more mainstream appeal i personally would say that her positives outweigh her negatives. Among the "Die Linke" party, which is as far left as the mainstream political spectrum in Germany goes, people with actually good foreign policy takes are few and far between, and now that she has left to form her own party there are even fewer.

Another promising figure in Die Linke who is generally a bit more vocally anti-imperialist than the rest is Sevim Dagdelen, but lately i haven't seen much of her.

[-] CamaradaJeronimo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Another promising figure in Die Linke who is generally a bit more vocally anti-imperialist than the rest is Sevim Dagdelen, but lately i haven’t seen much of her.

Apparently she left Die Linke to be part of Wagenknecht's new party.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Really? Well that's interesting news. I wonder if this new Wagenknecht party is really just a split of Die Linke along pro-imperialist vs anti-imperialist lines.