For the past days, there have been numerous large-scale demonstrations against the AfD. These protests are very large indeed. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part, including numerous politicians from the governing parties. One reason to ask what the revolutionaries attitude to these protests should be.
The background to the events is an investigation by the journalist collective CORRECTIV, which found out that a secret meeting took place between leading AfD politicians, the fascists of the "Identitarian Movement" politicians of the right-wing CDU faction "Werteunion", which is represented by the former head of the german interrior secret service Hans Georg Maaßen and currently has plans to found its own party, and other reactionary actors. The meeting debated how the many people living here who are considered by the racists to be non-German could be deported from Germany on a large scale.
The revelations of the journalist collective went around in the media on a large scale and generated a great deal of attention. As a result, there have been large demonstrations against the AfD in all parts of Germany over the last two weekends with hundreds of thousands of participants. Last night, for example, around 17,000 people took to the streets in Darmstadt. In Freiburg last weekend there were around 25,000 and in Cologne around 17,000. Last Sunday, a whole 100,000 people took part in one such demonstration in Berlin alone. In addition to the large turnout at the protests, the numerous positive statements by politicians in power and the well-intentioned media coverage are also striking. Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier (SPD), for example, commented on the protests: "These people give us all courage. They are defending our republic and our constitution against its enemies." Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser told the Rheinische Post: "The heart of our democracy was beating in our streets and squares this weekend." Top representatives of the German state such as Chancellor aka tax evader Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Analena Baerbock also took part in these demonstrations without any problems from within.
It can be said clearly, that it is right and important to take to the streets against fascism and racism. With this intuition, some people will certainly have taken part in those demonstrations over the last few days. Nevertheless, these protests are ultimately not consequently antifascist, but rather a political bluff by one part of the bourgeoisie against another in order to better assert their own interests within the state. The AfD's deportation plans are being condemned with outrage, while at the same time deportations are being simplified by the "good democratic" governing parties with acts like the "repatriation improvement law". At the same time, it is actally these parties that are currently the biggest drivers of the fascist tendency within the German state. It is the SPD, Gründe, FDP, but also the CDU and the so called "Left Party" that have passed numerous tightening of laws and new powers for the police in the form of police laws in recent years. So it is they who are now completely suspending freedom of expression on the issue of Palestine and using police batons to crush protests against the genocide of the Zionists, as could be seen very clearly at the LLL demonstration this year. In this spirit, there were also attacks on Palestinians participating in some of these "antifascist" demonstrations.
The large anti-AfD protests are not a rebellion against those in power. On the contrary, they are completely under their control. They are also not directed against the ruling conditions but are completely based on this capitalist system and are merely demanding a somewhat more liberal and colorful capitalism without the AfD. But it is capitalism that forms the basis for fascism in the first place. An anti-fascist protest that forgets this and allows itself to be used by the numerous more liberal bourgeois parties is more like a toothless tiger that has nothing to do with actual combative resistance to fascism.
Criticizing on the big protests in art form:"Germany in the throes of joy Hundreds of thousands take to the streets so that it is no longer called"foreigners go out" but "repatriation improvement law.""
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