Lafontaine was also a supporter of Otto Schilly's proposal to construct concentration camps in North Africa in order to prevent asylum seekers from reaching European soil:
http://de.indymedia.org/2004/08/89479.shtml
"foreigners" who take jobs from German workers, abolition of asylum laws, merging of unemployment and social insurance, and concentration camps for asylum seekers.
Such is the public face of "left" politics in Germany. But that a few white Germans still wish to hold onto the welfare state is sufficient proof of a leftist turn in German politics.
Smash white supremacy, smash Fortress Europe! *************
German workers don't own German jobs, anymore than Australian workers own Australian jobs. What's really going on is that the German employing class wants to buy their employees' skills and time for lower wages (prices) so that they can make greater rates of profit and compete more successfully in the world market for buying and selling commodities. Even semi-conscious workers want to have and keep a better standard of living, ergo the desire to maintain what gains in the use of their own surplus value i.e. the "welfare State". The competition between workers from various States is a reality in the marketplace of commodities. Buyers of ANY commodity will want to purchase it for a lower, rather than a higher price. And sellers, the working class in this instance, will want to get a higher price (including healthcare and other amenities of the welfare State).
The "left" such as it is, must tell workers the truth about their interests and stop trying to lead them to nicer forms of wage-slavery : the commodification of human relations is the problem and the abolition of the wage system by the workers themselves is the answer.
Mike B)
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
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