[lbo-talk] Re: Antifa Critique of German "Left Party"

[Angelus Novus]

Dennis Redmond writes:


>>Lafontaine is a racist? Where? When? Cite evidence,
please<<

I suspect you read the article too hastily.  Otherwise
the following passage should have jumped out at you
(the Phase 2 article in German gives the source as
Lafontaine's newest book, Politik fuer Alle):


>>Even disregarding his notorious statement that
Germans should be defended against “Foreign workers
[“Fremdarbeiter,” an infamous use of Nazi jargon
– translator] who take their jobs away,”
Lafontaine’s open racism is easily proved on the
basis of his numerous published works.  Lafontaine
whispers in his books about “forced immigration,”
which is “promoted solely by the upper 10,000
members of society.”  Lafontaine advocates the
withdrawal of German citizenship for all those who
don’t “speak the German language, pay taxes
according to their abilities and finance the welfare
state.”  He refers to the Germans as a community
determined by fate [“Schicksalsgemeinschaft” –
translator], and wrings his hands concerning the
“cultural identity of Europe at the end of the
century.”  A particular horror scenario preoccupies
Lafontaine as he declares, thunderstruck, “The land
of immigration, the USA, will no longer have a white
majority in fifty years.”<<

Lafontaine's "Fremdarbeiter" talk was a huge scandal
on the Left here, and many of the more reasonable PDS
functionaries (such as Petra Pau) saw themselves
forced to distance themselves from Lafontaine for this
kind of racist bile.

Of course, none of this moved the PDS to actually
remove such an obvious racist from the top spot on
their electoral list, primarily because they most
likely wouldn't have achieved 8,7 percent of votes
without him.

		
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