At the beginning of August on the Website “aufstehen.de” went online. It is a project of the dazzling Left-politician, is not in there, but it was already widely known. Now, the official launch takes place.
“In each beginning dwells a magic force”, wrote once of the Nobel literature prize winner Hermann Hesse. Whether this applies also to stand up for the liberal left to understand collection of “movement” is ultimately a question of point of view and of sympathy. In any case, but the Initiative has done much to ensure that many people are curious. Because in the beginning of the year rumors through traditional and social media were available, a group of Sahra wagenknecht forge plans for a collection of movement.
The Chairman of the Left group in the German Bundestag, provided that the voltage is reasonably high. Long said the project should begin in the summer. Finally, however, announced Wagenknecht the September date. Henceforth, it was always speculated on other possible supporters. Wagenknecht itself was shrouded in Silence, but some of the names appeared, the resourceful journalists want to have.
Guesswork about possible supporters
Gregor Gysi, the icon of the Left, was not one of them. On the contrary, He advised his enterprising successor as group leader in the Deutsche Welle Interview, from the Foundation of a collection movement. So something cannot be “from above” to organize, but it must arise from something down there. “And then You can be the source of a direction, a form of organization.” Wagenknecht has opted, however, for the opposite way, and hinted, that she was with a lot of people in the conversation.
“After careful Consideration,” said Konstantin Wecker of Sahra car farmhand
There were names such as the singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker and the social politician Rudolf Dreßler. Alarm clock (71) at the beginning of August the Berlin based newspaper “Tagesspiegel” will not align, he was “after careful Consideration”. Dreßler (78) appealed, however, in the “New press” from Chemnitz to his many electoral defeats-ridden social Democrats to be open for the collection of movement: “it is the only Chance for the SPD to a power perspective”.
“We want to put pressure on the other parties”
It should be “stand up”, although the project is allegedly not a party. On the Homepage it says: “We want to exert pressure on parties.” They wanted to support those “fighting for our goals in the parties”. Are summarized in the form of higher salaries, good pensions and care, fair taxes, a better environment policy, disarmament and détente.
All of these objectives can also be found in the programs of the Left, Greens and social Democrats. Of those three parties so that they would not have managed in the last decade, “to forge a reliable Alliance with each other and with a political concept of power exchange in Germany”. This finding is on the “stand up”Website. Of the other parties represented in the Bundestag, the collection is a movement that is explicitly.
A red-red-green Trio reports to word
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) incitement against the Weak and the wool wages or pensions cut. And Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), its Bavarian sister party CSU and the Free Democrats (FDP), the “make up policy for corporations and the Super-Rich”. It is the compelling desire to change something is missing. The hope that even a little change let, be the main source of left-wing politics. “In this hope we are one.”
But who is “we” – aside from Sahra Wagenknecht? Her husband, the former SPD politician Oskar Lafontaine, is one of them. In the “mirror” at the same time with the beginning of August unlocked Online presence, a red-red to detect green Trio: the members of The Bundestag Sevim Dağdelen (Left) and Marco Bülow (SPD), as well as the former Green party politician Antje Vollmar. In the Feuilleton of the “time” you could read a short that had formed a circle of artists and Intellectuals to wagenknecht, including the writer Eugen Ruge and actor Sebastian Schwarz.
Online, there is a “join-form”
On the Homepage of supporters from all strata of the population, such as Karl-Heinz (Internet economist) or Nada (journalist), Barbara (animal rights activist) or Rene (DJ), Rolf (retired), or Victoria (student). Almost 12,000 Followers have registered until the end of August, when the short message service Twitter. You can also fill in a “participation form” and by clicking default interests-areas such as “Safe jobs & higher wages”, “Real democracy” or “global justice”. Anyone who finds anything Suitable, has the opportunity to name it.
Sahra wagenknecht is hoping for a Packed hall of the Federal press conference; only Angela Merkel to do
And how to do it then? On 4. September is Sahra wagenknecht unravel the mystery – not just anywhere, but in the house of the Federal press conference (BPK). Located in the Berlin’s government district now, where, three times a week, Angela Merkel’s spokesman questions the so-called capital-replied to journalists. The choice of the place of course has a high symbolic significance. As reinforcement wagenknecht brings three people: the mayor of the city of Flensburg, Simone Long, the former Green-Chairman, Ludger Volmer and the dramaturge Bernd Stegemann.
“We want to discover new talent”
The project “get up” is now to come. “We want to conquer the Internet and the street,” reads the Website. “We want to shake up through the popular campaigns of the policy.” You should talk with neighbours, colleagues and Relatives, and with “funny ideas” the claims of support.
It count the, “what connects us, whether in a party or not”. Old divisions they wanted to overcome. And: “We want to discover new talent.” A quite well-known Talent of the German policy seems to be for the left movement even before their official launch lost: Kevin Kühnert, Chairman of the SPD youth organization, fought with much vigor against a continuation of the Grand coalition.
SPD hopefuls Kevin Kühnert has doubts…
In the case of Juso-chief Kevin Kühnert none of the collection exercise has been reported to
He was skeptical when people were for many years in politics on the road, “rod and want to start at once General a movement,” said the 29-Year-old of “time”. He meant, of course, Sahra wagenknecht and her husband, Oskar Lafontaine, was in the 1990s, the SPD Chairman, and after his move to the Left, temporarily, for this party. The couple seems to have no interest in Young Star Kühnert. To be to him or the Jusos never been contacted, “neither by Mrs Wagenknecht, nor of anyone else from the circle of the initiators”.
There are fears of contact? Competition think? Or, ultimately, just the continuation of what is in the relationship between the SPD, the Left, but also Green, again and again observe and what the sociologist Dieter Rucht expressed this way: “Instead of fighting with each other for common goals, they have fought each other.” The Protest and movement researcher doubts that “stand up” will have a lasting effect.
…and protest researchers Dieter Rucht also
In the short term, the prospects of success are good, “because a lot is reported about it, and because the platform can gather a lot of Dissatisfied”. But in the long term, you’ll go under or seek to become, a party. Another exciting development will be how the car wants to delimit the servant project in the Central questions of the right-wing populists. Expert Rucht sees a close “, particularly in social issues, and the approach to Migration”. In fact, the car is the servant against open borders for all. With this attitude, she has forfeited it, with the majority in their party. Not a good Omen for “stand up”.