CheekyBadger☭Oct 5, 2024
*Tag der Deutschen Einheit* was only three days ago. And it is worth reflecting on the events that followed in the 90s and 00s, the austerity and degradation of the former East through the folding of it into Western Neo-liberalism; and how this helps build a picture of the type of material conditions that can lead to the AfD and BSW both doing well in the same regions, in recent elections
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To begin - Setting the East and West Deutsch Mark at 1:1 made East firms unviable, leading to them being sold for peanuts and asset striped. At the same time, wage hikes in the East made the workers undesirable. All this leading to, that between 1989-1992 East manufacturing output fell by 67%. The effects were felt by a massive rise in unemployment. e.g. East Germans were 19% of German Population but 50% of the Unemployed. From then, until now, things didn't really get better.
This is explained in more detail in this discussion: https://youtu.be/3DlJpbdI4rs?t=366
#TagDerDeutschenEinheit #PlatypusAffiliatedSociety #DDR #GDR #NeoLiberalism #Germany #GermanReunification #EastGermany #AfD #Marxism
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What is the relevance of the EU for the Left? (Teach-In, 22/06/24, Leipzig)

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