There's more. A Bundestag delegate quoted in the article affirmed that the program is "fully at the height of the times" and "is consequently anticapitalist and antimilitarist. For the first time the question of property is posed as the core of left politics." And specific demands of the program include, "among other things, the nationalization of banks, a ban on temp work, and a statutory minimum income of 60% of average income... In the foreign policy section of the program, The Left demands the withdrawal from the military structures of NATO and the end of all foreign deployments by the armed forces."
Seems they've taken OWS and run ahead a ways...
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> It's quite a bit. Of course as we know from a century of experience no gain
> is guaranteed to last -- but still: When was the last time a left party
> (and
> with an electoral base to boot) explicitly reaffirmed the legacy of the
> Commune!!!!!
>
> Like you I am looking for more to come, but this is sort of a first
> explicit
> return from this wonderful explosion.
>
> Carrol
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Michael Smith
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 10:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Die Linke Poses the "System Question"
>
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:05:39 +0100 (BST)
> Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > "The Erfurt party convention enacts a progam with 'red stop line'.
> > [Party Chairman Klaus] Ernst affirms the legacy of the Paris
> > Commune, Rosa Luxemburg, and Carlo Guiliani"
> >
> > Thank you, OWS! This wouldn't have been possible without you!
>
> One certainly hopes that we will have more to thank
> OWS for than this. Indeed, I personally already have.
>
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>
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