Farmers’ protests surge in Germany against cuts in subsidies and tax increases : Peoples Dispatch
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The traffic light coalition government in Germany decided to cut subsidies to farmers and increase energy taxes while funding to imperialist wars goes uninterrupted
  • Nacktmull@lemm.ee
    21·
    6 months ago

    Don’t kid yourselves. These are right-wing farmers protesting against a government that they feel is too left-wing and too green. Of course, all the actual leftists and environmentalists know that the German government is made up of power-hungry capitalists. This makes very clear, how right-wing the protesting farmers are.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      42·
      6 months ago

      What people are protesting are their material conditions declining, which is the result of the neoliberal policies of the current government. This is the government that chose to fund a proxy war in Ukraine and to fight an economic war with Russia, these are the results. The reason people are increasingly turning to the right is because German left shat the bed, failed to take a principled stance on the war, and to provide a credible alternative to liberalism.