At the Crossroads: the German Left
At the Crossroads: the German Left

Summary/Abstract: After the elections in September 2009, Gregor Gysi – the co-chairman of the German post-communist party the Left (Die Linke) – said that the time has come for cooperation between the two major leftist parties, the Social Democrats and the Left. He continued with one stipulation: German social democracy must return from its trip down liberalism lane and become “socially democratized” again. The party’s insufficient emphasis on the social question and its insufficient social understanding were, according to him, the reason why the Social Democrats lost in September 2009.

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