Preocupados com a subida nas sondagens da AfD – e com a sua queda – a esquerda alemã resolveu finalmente uma incoerência no seu interior: ninguém no seu perfeito juízo pode ser simultaneamente 1) pelo crescimento do estado social e dos direitos que este garante e 2) pela imigração e portanto pela multiplicação exponencial dos potenciais receptores de tal welfare.

A extrema direita já há algum tempo que defende o “chauvinismo do estado social” – ou seja, a concentração dos benefícios em quem para eles contribuiu. A extrema esquerda alemã defende agora a mesma posição. Aparentemente entre os eleitores alemães e os não-eleitores refugiados, um partido que procura votos escolheu os primeiros.

Se conseguirem ler sem enjoar o People’s World, aqui fica um dos artigos em inglês a cobrir esta nova versão do socialismo. Excerpto:

Wagenknecht, however, rejects the totally open borders approach that die Linke has held.

She said recently: “The politically sensible dividing line is not between AfD resentments and the general morality of a border-free welcoming culture. A realistic left-wing policy equally rejects both of these maximum demands. It supports many in public life who voluntarily helped provide for the integration of the refugees. But at the same time, it does not leave it up to gangs of criminal traffickers to dictate to us which human beings are to be brought illegally into Europe.”

Asked if this view did not mean abandoning the left-wing commitment to internationalism, she replied: “On the contrary, internationalism means fighting for a more just world economic order. It is those who plunder the natural resources of poorer countries, who supply weapons to conflict regions and dictate unfair trade treaties who are being nationalist. We reject that. Internationalism does not mean luring away the middle classes of poorer countries in order to push down wages here. In a world with no borders, it is the multi-national corporations who have the power. At present social leveling and democracy can only function within single countries for there are no levers on a global level which can be used. The countries must, of course, protect their citizens from the competition of job dumping.”