Why do ARD, ZDF and podcasters still invite people like Höcke, Chrupalla and Krah? Because that’s democratic? A big mistake in the German media today.
It wasn’t very long ago that every West German city had a communist infrastructure of bookstores, evening schools, clubs and cultural institutions. Anyone who studied in the old Federal Republic before the fall of the Wall will have noticed the active communist student clubs. Their advertising material and topics were quite contemporary; they were mostly about peace, women’s rights and solidarity with the Third World. One could discuss endlessly with the comrades. They were also critical of the conditions beyond the Wall and emphasized their independence from East Berlin. MSB Spartacus, the SDAJ and the DKP were part of the folklore of German politics – and one day, soon after the end of the SED, they suddenly disappeared. Their autonomy was just a facade. The whole truth that their means and strategy of over there They had always dismissed them as propaganda from cold warriors.