but want to underline that this was the perspective of a likely older left person, who was likely part of resistance to revolutionary intersectionality
That's a bit of a rude assumption. They were in his early to mid 50s when I spoke with them. They initially became active in an antifa group in southern Germany in the early 90s, so to speak of funding from the East is not adequate to the situation. (No, they're not AntiD)
The campaigns you speak of are good, even if they're fading nowadays due to various degrees of betrayal from reformists and infighting, but are also a localized phenomenon to Berlin mostly. Here in Bavaria, all it amounted to was a petition which was immediately dismissed by the CSU courts in a "lol nope" fashion.
The chauvinism of the 80s in regards to say migrant workers in the unions is having a renaissance among supporters of Wagenknecht and she has depressing amounts of people going "her social democracy plans are good, because they exclude foreigners and allow me to be racist!".
While the trend is not looking downwards compared to the 2000s, I feel like the Covid era was a major setback and we are running out of time before the Merz government does an America style anticommunist propaganda/repression barrage. Then again, I am depressed and a notorious pessimist.
That's a bit of a rude assumption. They were in his early to mid 50s when I spoke with them. They initially became active in an antifa group in southern Germany in the early 90s, so to speak of funding from the East is not adequate to the situation. (No, they're not AntiD)
The campaigns you speak of are good, even if they're fading nowadays due to various degrees of betrayal from reformists and infighting, but are also a localized phenomenon to Berlin mostly. Here in Bavaria, all it amounted to was a petition which was immediately dismissed by the CSU courts in a "lol nope" fashion.
The chauvinism of the 80s in regards to say migrant workers in the unions is having a renaissance among supporters of Wagenknecht and she has depressing amounts of people going "her social democracy plans are good, because they exclude foreigners and allow me to be racist!".
While the trend is not looking downwards compared to the 2000s, I feel like the Covid era was a major setback and we are running out of time before the Merz government does an America style anticommunist propaganda/repression barrage. Then again, I am depressed and a notorious pessimist.