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- Title
Sahra Wagenknecht Divides the German Left.
- Authors
Stokes, Lauren
- Abstract
The article shows how German Member of Parliament Sahra Wagenknecht divides the German Left after deciding to leave to launch the party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance—For Reason and Justice, which aims to resolve the existential crisis in Germany. In her book "The Self-Righteous," Wagenknecht accuses the German Left's leadership of disregarding working-class voters in favor of an academic clientele. Her contempt for climate activism has aligned her with the far-right and her positions on the Russian invasion of Ukraine further split the left. She argues that participating in economic sanction against Russia represents an economic war and that Germany should stop supplying weapons to Russia and impose a cap on migrants from war zones. Plans to reform the citizenship law has been delayed.
- Subjects
GERMANY; RIGHT &; left (Political science); POLITICAL parties; WOMEN legislators; WORKING class; POLITICAL leadership; ECONOMIC sanctions; EMIGRATION &; immigration; CITIZENSHIP; WAGENKNECHT, Sahra
- Publication
Dissent (0012-3846), 2024, Vol 70, Issue 4, p69
- ISSN
0012-3846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/dss.2024.a918686