Posted on 10/02/2025 8:14:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Participants of the “Revolutionary 1st of May Demonstration” light flares and wave flags of the left-wing Antifa movement during May Day events on May 1, 2018 in Berlin. John MacDougall / AFP
It remains to be seen who is responsible for the arson attacks on a van and threats to Munich’s famous Oktoberfest on October 1st. Police are currently treating a claim of responsibility posted on the left-wing extremist platform Indymedia as either a fake or plagiarism.
But regardless of the investigation’s outcome, Germany faces a massive problem with ideologically motivated left-wing extremist violence—one that politicians and media have been reluctant to confront.
Three weeks ago, around 50,000 households, businesses, schools, and care homes lost electricity for up to 60 hours following a left-extremist attack. It was Berlin’s worst and longest blackout since WWII, caused by arson on two high-voltage pylons. An obscure anarchist group claimed responsibility on Indymedia, and police are treating the claim as credible.
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Mainstream complicity
What makes this crisis particularly troubling is how the language of extremist manifestos echoes mainstream progressive discourse. The September attackers railed against the “fake promises of progress made by technology and capital” behind which lurked a “fascist grimace.” They called Israel a genocidal warmonger state and justified harm to innocent people as necessary collateral damage against the West’s “militaristic-industrial complex.”
Strip away the explicitly violent rhetoric, and these talking points are indistinguishable from debates in German universities, media outlets, and even parliament.
Berlin’s mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) rightly condemned the September attack as directed at the people of Berlin, noting it “deliberately endangered human lives and the safety of our city.” Yet for years, politicians largely ignored the growing threat of left-wing extremism, focusing almost exclusively on far-right threats.
The state’s response has been remarkably restrained
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The leftist government response to leftist arson and sabotage against infrastructure is muted compares to the repression against the more conservative party AfD.
“Radical left wing” (self so called) is the mainstream now. It is a ruling class faction. In Western Europe and in the US Democratic Party.
It’s deliberate propaganda, so “orchestrates” would be better than “fuels” in the title.
Bkmk
Politicians and medea are reluctant because they all support the action of the Left, in their minds if not in their words. At best they merely worry that if they oppose anything on theleft they will lose the appearance of “virtue” in the eyes of theviolent left.
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