Interesting things happened at the Left Wing ‘Die Linke’ Party Conference in Germany. These are some of the featured speakers:
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Incredibly hilarious that the only thing able to be made out here is "people of color"
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Just wanted to give a bit further context on this. The Linke is actually a successor party to the SED, the party that used to govern the GDR. After the collapse of East Germany it eventually fused with another West German leftist party to form the modern Linke. It has since then been especially prevalent in the states that used to be East Germany.
With time, the direction in the party shifted focus from classic working class politics (but tbh the SED already always had a classic soviet internationalist direction) to the kind of identity politics that have been a blight in western politics for a while now which clashed especially with the East German, more socially conservative wing of the party and the electoral base there. One prominent member of that wing was Sarah Wagenknecht who recently formed her own party (BSW) with the goal of returning to focusing on class first leftist politics (and also being very pro-russia and somewhat anti-atlanticist).
I remember redditors on r/de saying that without the conservative wing holding the party back, people would now flock en masse to the Linke in order to support those hecking trans POC-of-color. Of course redditors are always wrong and instead the party has absolutely cratered its own support base. Redditors are now blaming it in part on the Linkes lacking enthusiasm in supporting Ukraine btw.
Just as an example the results of the somewhat recent state election in Thüringen:
The Linke went from 31% to 13% while BSW achieved 15%.
On a federal level it looks even worse where the Linke already barely was able to enter the Bundestag:
Now it looks very unlikely and BSW is polling at 8%.
What you are seeing in these pictures is at the same time the sad remains of a party and also part of the reason for its own current dilemma. These groups obviously fight tooth-and-nail to maintain their own grip and influence in the remains of the Linke, coupled with a refusal from the leadership to acknowledge the reasons for their current state, it seems unlikely that there will be reversal anytime soon.
It also shows that these (trans, POC) issues can only piggy-back on other established movements and parties which is why they have to weasel their way in, in order to survive long-term. In the process they are proving to be detrimental to organizations where these advocacy groups have embedded themselves in.
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