Re: [Marxism] Racism within Germany's "Left" Party

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> 
> The silence on this issue has been deafening, both within the Party and
> among its cheerleaders in other countries.  Lafontaine's "Fremdarbeiter" talk
> could still be explained away by apologists in terms of a poorly chosen
> words (dishonestly, one might add, given the racist content of the talk), but
> such blatant racism as in the case of Klaus Eckhard Walker cannot be
> regarded as merely a poor choice of words:
> 
> http://communism.blogsport.de/2009/04/03/the-german-left-partys-racism/
> 
> 

Yawn, Angelus. We all know "Die Linke" is a reformist and electoral-focused 
party. 

But this is rather a storm in a tea-cup. For one Klaus Eckhard Walker is not 
even a member of "Die Linke", he is just supported by "Die Linke" in a local 
election.

Furthermore the quote by him is from 2003. It is just the Christian Democrats 
who have digged that one out now. No wonder the "green" Tageszeitung has jumped 
on the CDU band-waggon in denouncing "Die Linke" as racist. Such accusation 
from the side of the German Torries are only bizarre, given their day-to-day 
racist policies.

Especially Klaus-Peter Klingelschmitt hates anything that could be remotely 
termed as left or radical. During Joschka Fischer's time in Frankfurt he was 
one of his worst syncophants. And you think you should link in your blog to 
such kind of gutter journalism.

(Internationally another incident in a local election campaign would much more 
interesting. Why dont defend leading party members their own canidates, but 
rather echo Zionist smear campaigns. 
eg:
<http://www.forum-ds.de/article/1801.antisemitisch_wirkende_aeusserungen_werden_wir_zurueckweisen_mit_oder_ohne_erlaubnis_von_gremien.html>

For the background see:
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21016 )

Johannes

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