The German government has collapsed. The Social Democrats’ attempt to rescue German capital’s interests by reestablishing Germany as an imperialist force has been a catastrophe. Here is what the media will not tell you.
The German government has pushed the country into three wars—Ukraine, Palestine, and Lebanon. All are funded by taxpayers while public services deteriorate.
Germany is facing critical shortages: 183 occupations are in need of workers, thousands of doctors’ practices are closing, and hundreds of thousands of spaces are lacking in daycares. The national railway system is a national embarrassment due to widespread delays.
Germany’s economy has only gone from bad to worse. It is expected to contract in 2024 for the second consecutive year, largely driven by manufacturing struggles and fierce competition with other imperialist powers like China.
The education system in Germany is underfunded by €68 billion, according to the Education and Science Union (GEW). Education quality is plummeting, yet military spending continues to rise.
Trump has threatened to impose 10% tariffs on imports from Europe, a move that could further batter Germany’s already flailing economy.
Since October 7, Germany has seen ongoing weekly protests against the government’s support for Israel’s genocide in Palestine and its brutal response to solidarity protests.
Germany is facing international condemnation stemming from potential genocide complicity charges and widespread criticism for its brutal crackdown on solidarity movements at home.
The government is alienating Germany’s Muslim, Arab, and Middle Eastern communities by deporting Afghans to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and threatening to strip citizenship from Palestine supporters.
This government enabled the ascent of the far-right and fascist parties. Instead of countering them, the government is adopting their rhetoric by blaming migrants for the misery in Germany. The so-called liberals are shifting German society further to the right.
“fierce competition with other imperialist powers like China” wut?
Woops. I missed that. Yeah that’s pretty cringe. Leaving aside the nonsense about China being imperialist that whole paragraph would make way more sense if they said US instead of China, because it’s the US that’s been mainly siphoning off German industry. A lot of companies have been moving to the US because energy prices are just insanely uncompetitive in Germany (thanks to USA blowing up our pipelines and US puppet Green party shutting down our nuclear power…). I mean just look at this shit:
By the way, i can personally confirm the part about the German railways being an absolute embarrassment. For months now on my wife’s commute route it has basically been a nightmare, impossible to rely on the trains even coming at all, and all they say ahead of time is “disruptions may occur”, so people go to the station thinking they’ll catch their usual train to work.
First everything seems normal, then they announce delays, then 5 min before it’s supposed to come they announce it’s actually not coming at all. Then they say you can take this alternate route via slower regional rail but you need to switch trains halfway and it’ll take you almost an hour longer, oh and for part of the route you also need to take a bus that the railway company kindly provides as replacement for the train.
But then you get there and that bus doesn’t come and there is zero explanation why not and you are stranded in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and you’d have to wait another 45 min for the next train, so you end up sharing a cab with a couple of other similarly fucked over passengers. You get to work almost two hours late.
Later that day when you get off work you get to go through a similar adventure going home. Oh and by the way starting January the price of your ticket is going up by 20%. German efficiency!
Don’t forget the usual apocalypse once the first snowflake hits. Suddenly all trains break at the same time!
other imperialist powers like China.
Whoa there, are Red ultras?
Otherwise, it hits most of the key points people are frustrated about. One big one to add is the underfunding of healthcare.
Whoa there, are Red ultras?
Apparently so. They put out good content most of the time though and luckily they don’t talk about China too often. It’s still sad that they have such a huge misunderstanding when it comes to China, i mean how can you see everything that the imperialist West is doing and still think China is the same?
Red often makes content surrounding Maoist groups like the CPI or anti-China videos about how their trade with Africa is exploitative. That said while more than often their anti-China rhetoric and videos have bad information in them I do find their covering of actual maoist groups very interesting and being critical of China can sometimes land a good point
And even after all that, the things that probably caused the government to collapse was Volkswagen announcing the closure of factories in Germany, the Trump re-election and the impending tarrifs that he will impose, and Intel’s decision not to open a chip factory in Germany. It’s always about the interests of the elites and capital.
The only way Germany has to get out of this free-fall is to elect or appoint someone willing to end the wars and re-establish relations with Russia and its cheap energy exports. Considering German politics, this is very unlikely to happen from within the government parties. And the only ones willing to do this are the fascist AfD, and Sahra Wagenknecht (who is increasingly patsoc). I think the German people are going to realize this, and considering their leanings unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly clear that an AfD victory in Parliament and for the Chancellorship is looming on the horizon. That is unless Die Linke manages to pull its head out of its ass for once (even if they do, they’ll likely end up being just another SPD), or by some miracle, the communists manage a come-back.
Die Linke is dead, all decent members went to BSW. What’s left are the culture warriors, zionists and liberals.
Next chancelor will propably be Blackrock Merz who wants WW3 more than anything else. Current Germany is in for interesting times.
Yeah not only is Die Linke dead but even before the split it had very little chance of breaking through electorally especially in the western part of Germany. They have been relentlessly smeared by the mainstream media pretty much ever since the party was created and have been associated in people’s minds with the communist “dictatorship” of the DDR. In the east that’s not as big of an issue and they used to get some wins there every now and then, but they would never have had a chance outside of those eastern states. BSW by and large doesn’t have that branding problem, though now the mainstream media is working overtime to demonize them by calling them Putin puppets. Not sure it’s working, a lot of people just don’t trust the MSM anymore.
