Support for migrant Sarrazin hostile arguments made by the media and politics.
Sales of the book and the polls show that Sarrazin theories - at least in its shortened form in which they are discussed openly - on interest and come in sections of the population, even with approval. But this support is not totally unexpected, but was made aware, by the media and the politicians supposedly shocked the bourgeois parties.
Claus Ludwig, Socialist City Council, The LINKE.Köln
Sarrazin's book has been pushed by a massive media campaign. At the top stood the BILD-Zeitung, which acts as Sarrazin advertising. The IMAGE saying "you have to say, the still allowed" was a clever move. So implies that there is taboo in the integration debate. This is about it for years to argue publicly, Sarrazin himself could also spread extensively in the media.
But it is not just about pictures. The fact that this newspaper from time to time right propaganda warming is well known. More importantly, even "serious" media participate in spreading Sarrazin theses. A serious analysis of his statements could be found almost anywhere. The mainstream media took part as a voyeuristic attitude: We shudder to shows and be shocked like a splatter film or a sleazy porn, but it somehow finds it exciting.
Other comments represent the line that Sarrazin shoot over the top and use the wrong tone, would respond but would be real problems. That is the attitude of almost all bourgeois politicians. You have just hyperventilating and excited when Sarrazin of the "Jewish genes," said, but this is not even took the opportunity to make it clear that he thus offers links for Nazis and in fact acts as the precursor. The SPD parliamentary leader in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Nieszery said, Sarrazin had to "... In the case of integration problems' is used. Minister Gutenberg says Sarrazin had initiated the "right debate" and calls - as even Sarrazin, IMAGE, and the right edge of "ProNRW" to the NPD - a debate on integration "without blinders.
This main line of bourgeois politics is flanked by the Rechtslauslegern all parties which are linked positively to Sarrazin, including Klaus von Dohnanyi (SPD), former First Mayor of Hamburg, Sarrazin supported and the claim that " Groups that have not been excelled by work and money (or parts of some German migrants) have more children and lower then the performance level of the nation in the long term could. "declared fit.
For most, the topic of style, tone and civility be secondary. Sarrazin's contents have been told by politicians and media to be admissible, so he also finds support among sections of the population. has to be said is that only parts of Sarrazin's positions are publicly debated. The stirred up over years of media and civic leaders fear a growing immigration, which allegedly caused social problems, could be abused by Sarrazin, to spread a new level of racist positions. Many think that it was indeed his statements about "genes" went too far, but is right so that migration is the cause of social problems. If the same people read that, among other things Sarrazin also forced mandatory work for all able-bodied unemployed calls and threatens to refusal with the deletion of state transfers and public health insurance, they will hopefully think again about who they go there on your line. For Sarrazin essentially is a brutal, neo-liberal capitalism. He argues against wage increases and welfare cuts, its racism is the ideological accompany naked capitalism support.
media campaign and lack of headwind
A counter-intelligence is not yet underway. Unions and the left stick inexplicably back. On the DGB-site using the search function is indeed a clear assessment by board member Anne Sarrazin Buntenbach to find on the site of a press release of the Verdi Verdi Migration Committee Frankfurt / Main, but arguments against its thesis is found so far, except for the website of the IG Metall, much less prominently.
The Left has some press releases on the subject published, but which sound strangely tepid. Irritating it is often the "reputation of the Bundesbank or the Federal Republic said. Sarrazin's theses that are racist, is mentioned, but an argument can not be found even in the Left. It is urgently necessary to start building the large organizations of the labor movement launched an offensive against racism.
That imagine according to surveys, 16 to 18 percent can choose a "Sarrazin-party" is the product of both years of campaigns against Muslims and migrants as well as reinforced by the economic crisis, fears about the future of many people, but also a week-long media coverage and a specific playing down his proposals from the established parties. ogle
Given the crisis in that part of the ruling class parties and their political Representatives trying to establish a "populist" party and create an alternative right of the CDU. As far protagonists Merz (CDU) and Clement (SPD) were traded. Such a party would be based on racism and Islamophobia and the pressure on the unemployed and wage earners increase.
Sarrazin provocations are used as a test balloon to check how much support a "serious" would, from the establishment started right party - in contrast to the various projects from the unreliable fascist grubby corner as "ProNRW,", NPD, etc.
In neighboring European countries, "populist" parties - that parties whose fascist character is not clear or the classic fascist elements (thugs, "Battle for the street") weak or absent and which is first on civil-parliamentary restrict methods - developed much further.
The Freedom Party in Austria is stable at around 20 percent, driving the entire political life to the right, in the Netherlands, Wilders-racist party in the government. These parties play an important role in the capital: they weaken the resistance to social cuts and wage dumping by division, distract from the social issues and dissatisfaction from the respective scapegoats.
The legislation is still characterized by discrimination against migrants. But at least verbally SPD and CDU have admitted that the Federal Republic is a country of immigration. In particular, the CDU wants to avoid to be in the big cities to a structural minority party, because it only as a conservative-Christian is seen. The verbal acceptance of a multi-ethnic, multicultural usually called reality has made it difficult for rulers in part, to use racism as an instrument of division. Sarrazin now that these large public platform receives shows that parts of the middle class think it necessary to keep next to their existing parties another instrument in the form of a coarser stud ready.
potential for rights
The polls have been pushing for Sarrazin, but they are certainly not just a media product. Actually exists in Germany, the potential for a right-wing party. have during the "real" or "classical" Rasssimus that people of color for "inferior" explains decreased over the last decades, are other forms of racism have been strengthened. The "welfare chauvinism" against migrants, who are said to take away the jobs, has been brought out again and again-like campaign - for example, in the asylum debate of the early 90s - and in parts of the population is anchored. The propaganda against Islam, which is also important to justify Western military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, has also taken root.
Despite the current economic upswing in Germany, there is - and rightly so - a sense of crisis. The public finances collapse, wages stagnate for decades, poverty is growing. The frustration is great. Especially in times take place in which little class warfare, in which low self-activity among the workers there, in which the alternatives of trade unions and the party Die Linke are weak, can racial ideas spread in layers of the working population.
Support for Sarrazin may shrink, the start of a party the right of the CDU will meet with many concrete barriers. But the approval for Sarrazin in parts of the population and the cynical response from the representatives of the establishment are a clear warning to the workers' movement and the Left: The Racism is a weapon of the rulers in order to deepen the split in the working population, resistance to keep it small and put up repression against groups of the population in transition.
The unions and the left should immediately intervene in the debate to debunk his theories as arguments against baiting and sprinkle Sarrazin wide. You should point out the consequences for the situation of workers, if they enforce racist ideas. Restraint is not appropriate, you can not hush up the debate or want to, they would not exist.
