Germany’s Die Linke (Left party) is preparing for a new political profile, after the exit of leading dissident Sahra Wagenknecht who plans to create her own party. Linke wants to pose as “modern socialist” with substantial green aspects and a commitment to the “digital future,” which implies burying their traditional pro-working class orientation.
“A modern socialist party needs answers to the question of how we can develop our economic and production methods into the future,” Maximilian Schirmer, the Linke’s regional chairman for Berlin, told the RND RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland newspaper chain about a programmatic paper presently in discussion at the party’s top.
The paper is about shaping the ecological transformation of the economy in a “socially just way.” Among other things, it talks about a monthly social climate money of €200 for all citizens who gross no more than €4,000 per month. An “industrial foundation” financed by the Federal government should specifically acquire shares in companies that play a key role in the transition and thus steer the climate-neutral transformation, it says.
