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In my video two weeks ago, I said I would talk about the remarkable German politician, Sahra Wagenknecht.
She is an example of a thoroughgoing lefty who is on our side on immigration. You seem to find people like her only in Europe, and in some countries, they are in power. I have always argued that sensible views on race and immigration are not inherently either Left or Right, and such people prove it.
These days, to call a party “far-right” almost always means it wants secure borders. And that is why Sahra Wagenknecht – whom I will just call Sahra and who is from the Communist Left — is so baffling to our rulers. And why she provokes idiotic headlines like: “Is Germany’s rising superstar so far left she’s far right?”
No. She’s no more “far right” than Karl Marx or Che Guevara, who also understood race.
Sahra was born in East Germany in 1969, under the Communists.
Her father was an Iranian student, who buggered off back to Iran when she was only three.
She joined the East German Communist party just before the Berlin Wall fell, and became an intellectual.
Her master’s thesis in 1996 on the Young Karl Marx’s interpretation of Hegel was so insightful it was published as a book.
She was, and still is, a Marxist, which is a wrong but serious view of the world. To use the term to describe nitwits like Kamala Harris and BLM rowdies is an insult to Marxists.
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Sahra went on to be awarded a PhD, magna cum laude, in microeconomics.
After reunification with West Germany, and as the old East German commies faded away, she helped found The Left Party in 2007.
It has gone increasingly woke and crazy.
But Sahra has been consistently Old Left: in favor of workers’ rights and welfare, and suspicious of the United States, capitalism, and big business. In 2017, she called for the dissolution of NATO, and for closer ties with Russia, which she sees as a natural energy supplier. She opposed sanctions against Russia after the Ukraine invasion, and opposes sending weapons to Ukraine. She is a big fan of leftists such as Hugo Chavez in South America.
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And, she doesn’t like immigrants who misbehave. On New Year’s Eve 2015, Muslims sexually assaulted an estimated 1,200 German women, especially in Cologne.
Sahra, perhaps by then the most high-profile member of The Left party, wanted to kick them out because “Whoever abuses his right to hospitality has forfeited his right to hospitality.” Party comrades were furious “because the left should not question solidarity and human rights. And because no one could seriously consider sending Syrian refugees back.”
In 2016, Sahra, criticized Angela Merkel for letting in so many Syrians. She believes that “the stronger the welfare state, the more of a sense of belonging there must be, because if people have no connection to those who receive social benefits, then at some point they will refuse to pay for those benefits.”
What an idea. You can give Syrians German citizenship but that won’t make them German.
This so outraged a lefty group called “Cakes for Misanthropes” that a member broke into a meeting of The Left party. [0:00 – 0:16]
Undaunted, she says Berlin’s “message to the world [should be] that ‘Germany is overwhelmed, Germany doesn’t have any more room.’ ”
Sahra despises snooty, lifestyle leftists who do nothing for the working class. In 2021, she wrote a book called The Self-Righteous, which blasted the hypocrisy and self-absorption of people she calls “left-liberals” who are neither left nor liberal. It was the number-one best seller that year.
Sahra thinks The Greens are the worst.
They started out as pacifists and environmentalists but were behind the destruction of the German nuclear generation industry – which Sahra thought was vital for the economy and good for workers – and the greens are now ferocious warmongers against Russia. She calls them “the most hypocritical, most aloof, most mendacious, most incompetent and, measured by the damage they cause, also the most dangerous party we currently have in the Bundestag.”
That was thought to be especially bad because the most dangerous party is supposed to be the nationalist Alternative for Germany.
This year, Sahra voted against a law to make it easier for Germans to change sex. She said it was “ridiculous if it weren’t so dangerous” and that it “turns parents and children into guinea pigs for an ideology that only benefits the pharmaceutical lobby.”
I don’t know how she finds the time, but Sahra writes books.
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Here is just a selection of them, with interesting titles such as Wealth Without Greed, Capitalism in a Coma, Freedom Instead of Capitalism, and even a book about the poet Goethe.
She is so well known in Germany that a biography of her was a big seller in 2019.
The next year, she was the subject of a documentary about her last years as a member of The Left party.
She was increasingly out of step with it, and this January, she started her own party, the “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance,” known by its German initials, BSW, and whose motto is “for reason and justice.”
Here she is, with colleagues, announcing the formation of the party, which campaigned on immigration control, support for working people, and closer ties with Russia.
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Just a few months old, the BSW came in third in state elections this month in Thuringia and Saxony, a remarkable achievement that Sahra celebrated with flowers.
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The BSW could join ruling coalitions in those states, and is poised to become a national force in federal elections next year.
Sahra Wagenknecht is a frightening riddle for people who think only the “far right” understands immigration.
A similar politician is Robert Fico, prime minister of Slovakia.
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He was born in 1964 in Communist Czechoslovakia, got a doctorate in law in 1986, and joined the Communist Party. After the collapse of the regime in 1989, just like Sahra, he stayed in the Communist’s successor party, which was called the Party of the Democratic Left.
After Slovakia separated from the Czech Republic, and as open commies fell out of favor, again like Sahra, he started a new leftist party known by its initials SMER.
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Mr. Fico has been in and out of power and now, in his third term as prime minister, has led the country for more than 10 years.
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He has been consistently Old Left, fighting for workers’ rights, union power, increased severance pay, and generous leave. And he wants no immigrants, certainly not Muslims. “Islam has no place in this country,” he says, adding that Slovakia would not accept “one single Muslim.”
When the EU first talked about forcing member countries to accept quotas of immigrants, he said, “As long as I am prime minister, mandatory quotas will not be implemented on Slovak territory.”
This year, when Brussels told Slovakia it could either take in illegals or pay bounties to keep them out, he declared, “We are saying unequivocally that you cannot order a country that it must accept, in the Slovak case, up to 300 migrants you know nothing about, or pay 20,000 euros per each.”
Mr. Fico has accused the EU of being “so in love with itself” it can’t imagine better ways of doing things. In his most recent political campaign, he said adoption by same-sex couples would be “a perversion,” and added that while his opponent “decides whether he is a boy, a girl or a helicopter today, for us, gender ideology in schools is unacceptable and marriage is a unique union between a man and a woman.”
An earlier Slovak government sent 110 engineers to help the Americans in Iraq, but Mr. Fico brought them home.
He angered the US by saying, “The war in Iraq is unbelievably unjust and wrong.” “To speak about any democracy in Iraq is a fantasy,” “and if somebody wants to say today that the situation there has improved, it would be a lie.”
At Nuremburg we hanged Nazis for the crime of “waging aggressive war.”
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Dick Cheney, George W., Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz got off without a scratch.
The Social Democrat prime minister of Denmark is another lefty who understands immigration.
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Here is The Guardian, worrying about “Mette Frederiksen: the anti-immigration left leader set to win power in Denmark.”
Another one of those bafflingly sensible lefties!
She says all migrants must work 37 hours a week if they expect any benefits. She supported a bill that made asylum seekers hand over their jewelry to help pay for their upkeep, and that sent criminal aliens to an island used for studying contagious animal diseases. Most importantly, she wants a “paradigm shift” – a push to make repatriation, rather than integration, the goal of asylum policy.
She takes the standard Old Left position: “Unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.”
American lefties used to understand this. “For years, Bernie Sanders warned that increased immigration would lower the wages of U.S. workers. Now he barely mentions it.”
He has been steamrollered, along with the entire American Left, which is now all about BIPOCs and globo-homo, and workers be damned.
Some of you remember Pim Fortuyn of the Netherlands.
He started off as a Marxist – the real kind – and became a member of the Dutch Labor Party.
Fortuyn was an open homosexual and especially hostile to Muslims. He famously said, “If I could get it legally, I would simply say: no more Muslims will be allowed in.” He added, “I don’t hate Islam. I think it’s a backward culture. . . . And wherever Islam is in charge, it’s just terrible.”
Fortuyn thought immigration could completely change Dutch society and said, “’I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.”
In 2002, Fortuyn was assassinated in this parking lot by a native Dutchman who accused him of “scapegoating” Muslims.
This plaque is on the spot where he was killed.
He had just started a political party, and if he had lived, he might have built a strong, left-leaning immigration-control movement.
Lefties need not be morons on immigration. At least in Europe – or at least where it was protected from American insanity by the Iron Curtain – you can say openly that Slovakia should be for the Slovaks and be on either the Left or the Right. Any chance of that here? I doubt it.
