Is this fascism now?
Is this fascism now?
About the meaninglessness of the “Firewall” idealism between bourgeois and fascist politics.
Reminder: The words marked in red are links that lead to corresponding critique articles.
Before reading this article, we recommend reading “About Right-Wing Extremism” and “The Ordeal of Choice“.
The bourgeois reason is losing its mind – the fascist AfD managed to win 34% in Saxony and 30.6% in Thuringia, the party’s Hotspot under Höcke.
Repeatedly, the democratic unity front calls it “a dark day for democracy”.
One must ask: why exactly?
The AfD hovers like a large, unavoidable evil over liberal common sense, which seeks to distinguish its imperialist ambitions from those of the AfD.
We – the democratic parties – and the AfD.
Where exactly is the boundary of this distinction? It remains unclear.
It is no secret that, regarding the “fight against the AfD”, all established parties (except Die Linke) adopt talking points of the AfD to steal its audience.
It is clear that the self-critical tactic of “We should have addressed people’s concerns more”, which many mainstream parties use to justify their own xenophobia, is nothing more than an endorsement of the AfD’s goals for their own survival.
The supposed clear boundary between “democratic” and “fascist”, which seems obvious in bourgeois consciousness, can no longer be clearly defined since the “fight against the AfD”.
What actually distinguishes the AfD from the other parties that have governed Germany since 1949?
It was the traffic light coalition parties that stripped refugees of their last bit of self-determination via the “Payment Card”.
It is the “democratic” parties that now decide to deport again to the fascist Taliban-Afghanistan – a certain death sentence for many, where lifestyles are criminalized.
The Green leadership has been advocating “speeding up deportations” for months, and the SPD, with Faeser, is responsible for the harshest political persecutions since the 1960s. We need not even mention the FDP and CDU.
It seems that this thing called “fascism” in bourgeois understanding is nothing more than “what we are not”.
The only real difference between the migration policies of the parties that the bourgeois media characterizes as a fascist tendency of the AfD is rhetoric.
One could argue that the intensification of migration discourse by the established parties is a consequence of the AfD’s success, but what kind of argument is that?
The tactic of “stealing audience” is nothing but a betrayal of every political ideal, aimed at maintaining power.
The adoption of AfD talking points to win over AfD voters inevitably leads to the fascistization of the entire political landscape.
This purely ideological boundary between fascism and healthy bourgeois nationalism also serves as a defense mechanism to avoid confronting the systemic causes of social contradictions.
This emptiness of fascism, and what it actually is, allows the other parties to indulge in chauvinism, migrant hatred, and militarism, all while hiding behind the shameful “Firewall”.
In the aftermath of the Saxony elections, the TAZ reads: “The CDU remains the only major democratic party in Saxony and Thuringia. It must now fulfill its responsibility for all antifascists”.
Strategically voting CDU because it remains “the only major democratic party” in Saxony, and thus bears the responsibility for antifascism.
This is so pathetic that it borders on historical revisionism.
The CDU, which plans to cut benefits “for tolerated asylum seekers”, and with the “Merz Plan”, aims to solve the “gigantic problem of illegal mass migration” through measures including declaring a “national emergency” and “massively turning away migrants at the borders”, and after the New Year’s Eve riots of 2023, specifically asking for the “first names of the perpetrators with German nationality” and proposing to ban speaking any language other than German in schools.
Choosing a party as a “Leftist” (whatever that means for the left-liberals), which aligns with the fight against progressive forces, i.e., anti-communism, is the height of false consciousness, expressed as double false consciousness among these “leftists”.
But this CDU is not fascist-like, after all, if it’s not the AfD.
The same applies to SPD, FDP, and of course, the Greens – with the latter especially trying to dress up their internal politics with a “woke” flair, where “more clarity on issues that are not easy for us” is demanded, even if it means deporting to Taliban Afghanistan.