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Für Friedrich Merz (CDU), vor seiner Kanzlerschaft angetreten mit dem Versprechen, die AfD zu halbieren, werden die Umfragen zunehmend zur Belastung. „Das sind Umfragen, die mich natürlich auch besorgen“, sagte Merz zuletzt im ZDF. Die Strategie des Kanzlers, mit Reformen die AfD kleinzuregieren, geht bislang nicht auf.
Der Politologe Marcel Lewandowsky, der sich an der Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle/Saale mit dem Erstarken des Populismus und der Krise der Parteien beschäftigt, hält den Plan von Merz für illusorisch. „Reformen abzuarbeiten, wird die AfD nicht systematisch schwächen“, sagt er im Gespräch mit dem Tagesspiegel. Die Kommunikation des Kanzlers nennt er zudem „ungeschickt“.
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Union und SPD dürften der AfD in dieser Melange thematisch nicht hinterherlaufen, warnt der Politologe. Die Verschärfung der Migrationspolitik etwa habe nicht für mehr Zuspruch der Bundesregierung gesorgt. Auch in der Wirtschaftskrise müssten die Parteien der Mitte daher mit eigenen Ideen punkten.
„Auf die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen sollten die demokratischen Parteien mit klaren Positionen polarisieren“, sagt Lewandowsky. „Mit technischen Details und Förderprogrammen dringt man in einer verunsicherten Bevölkerung nicht durch“, sagt der Wissenschaftler und kritisiert etwa das blasse Auftreten von Sachsen-Anhalts Ministerpräsident Sven Schulze (CDU).
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Doch ob Merz dafür der richtige Kanzler ist, daran zweifelt Lewitan zunehmend. „Der Kanzler spricht wie ein Technokrat, und ihm als Millionär wird nicht abgenommen, dass er die Ängste und Sorgen der Menschen versteht.“
Gypsies, Slavs, Jews and disabled people surely prefer death over communism.
While yes, supression and life under a totalitarian survailance state without freedoms is still better than death. But i also bet they would have loved to not get this but rather be indipendent again and have democracy.
To add to this: Jews got hunted and killed by stalins orders, Slavs (others too but you gave them as example) lost their culture as faar as it didnt align with soviet values and also got killed (see holodomor)
And dont delude yourself. The soviet empire was not communist. It switched out the tsar oligarchy with their own
They had other freedoms. Looking at health care, homelessness or incarceration rates for people of color, people in the US are also not free. They live off illegal immigrants and neocolonial profits. Without those profits the US would have a different standard of living and people would feel less free.
That sounds equal to the Nazis. However Wikipedia sounds differently. What do you have in mind? There is an assumed deportation plot but that is an assumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin_and_antisemitism
That was the point, to end a culture of exploitation. Why is that bad?
It was hierarchical but did the elite equally take all resources?
As all sane people should do
Why?
Because communism also leads to mass death, but with the benefit of a bit more poverty and less social mobility
It came from inaptitude and insufficient development.
That inaptitude can be overcome which cannot be said about racism in fascist.
Why is social mobility a good thing? It implies an exploiting upper class. If everybody can receive good education, isn’t that more important?
If you price maids, construction work and fruit picking in the US with regular wages, are people still not poor? The US mask poverty by exploiting others even more.
The free time of the workers has to be compared, not just their cars. What good is a nice car if you don’t have time to drive it?
Dead is dead. For me, personally, it wouldn’t make that much of a difference if i was killed due to malice or inaptitude.
In civilised nations (e.g. NOT the US) with some form of a capitalist system you still have time to… well… live you life without subscribing to a pipe dream of equality through poverty.
It would. First of all life is different. If you have to hide for racial reasons there is no hope and no opportunity to adapt. Life would be isolated on the run or in a camp, waiting for death.
In a famine, contrary to expectations, people share. The time till death is hard, but not cruel.
For the future, the difference is huge. Technology helps both. The chance of survival in racist fascism is minimal while the chance for famine is minimal in communism.
But we are changing that. Accumulation of capital means that everybody loses everything but the elite. The middle class is collapsing because the elite can outbid them for every investment opportunity.
It would be easy to resolve with a wealth tax. Capitalism means that the elite can buy the politicians and that they will prevent it.