The former Die Linke politician’s new party embraces a model that has found purchase among sections of the left across the Global North: left-wing economics paired with a variety of political positions pulled from the right.
The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.
Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”
The decline of the historically dominant center-right and center-left parties in Germany and in the recent EU elections sets the stage for greater conflict over how to deal with Europe’s multiple crises.
