All I know of her is that some liberals I know have called her ‘problematic,’ a term which is bereft of any meaning when it passes from a liberal’s lips.
She’s a nationalistic liberal. One with different foreign policy views to the most, because she views them to be more favorable for Germany. Probably the lesser evil to the AfD, CDU/CSU and the parties of the stoplight coalition, but that’s a low bar.
Her being a communist until around the late 2000s, but becoming a turncoat with a love for ordoliberalism and Ludwig Erhard is sad. Opportunism, or a genuine conversion (likely influenced by her husband - literally the SPD chairman in the 90s), there is no socialism in the views she spreads.
While it would be absurd for a Socialist to mistake her for a comrade, your scepticism towards her “problematization” (especially by liberals) is very warranted.
It depends on who you compare her to. 30 years ago, she was a Socialist, compared to that modern day Wagenknecht is very bad.
However if you compare her party to the German Bundestag, then 99+/-1% are more “problematic”.
As an example: for the longest time her new party stood alone in the parliament in opposing weapons exports that facilitate an active genocide (her old left party recently managed to overcome internal resistance and silently join her in that conclusion, though I wonder if its members know).
I share and understand the frustration comrades have with some of her stances / rhetoric, but if you view imperialism or more specifically hyper-imperialism (as tricontinental calls it) as the main contradiction of our time - which I do - then both become clear: why she is in no way among the most “problematic” and also why she is constantly made out to be by the transatlantic media
So yeah a comrades criticism of her is very valid (as I guess they don’t support any other party in the parliament either), a liberals is - as always - massively hypocritical
What’s people’s opinion on Wagenknecht here?
All I know of her is that some liberals I know have called her ‘problematic,’ a term which is bereft of any meaning when it passes from a liberal’s lips.
She’s a nationalistic liberal. One with different foreign policy views to the most, because she views them to be more favorable for Germany. Probably the lesser evil to the AfD, CDU/CSU and the parties of the stoplight coalition, but that’s a low bar.
Her being a communist until around the late 2000s, but becoming a turncoat with a love for ordoliberalism and Ludwig Erhard is sad. Opportunism, or a genuine conversion (likely influenced by her husband - literally the SPD chairman in the 90s), there is no socialism in the views she spreads.
She is a Anti-War Socdem that is socialy Conservative. So Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Trans rights.
This was my last, longer comment about her (party).
While it would be absurd for a Socialist to mistake her for a comrade, your scepticism towards her “problematization” (especially by liberals) is very warranted.
It depends on who you compare her to. 30 years ago, she was a Socialist, compared to that modern day Wagenknecht is very bad.
However if you compare her party to the German Bundestag, then 99+/-1% are more “problematic”. As an example: for the longest time her new party stood alone in the parliament in opposing weapons exports that facilitate an active genocide (her old left party recently managed to overcome internal resistance and silently join her in that conclusion, though I wonder if its members know).
I share and understand the frustration comrades have with some of her stances / rhetoric, but if you view imperialism or more specifically hyper-imperialism (as tricontinental calls it) as the main contradiction of our time - which I do - then both become clear: why she is in no way among the most “problematic” and also why she is constantly made out to be by the transatlantic media
So yeah a comrades criticism of her is very valid (as I guess they don’t support any other party in the parliament either), a liberals is - as always - massively hypocritical