Sahra Wagenknecht introduced a new ideology by founding the party “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Rationality and Justice in Germany.”
Author: Fayaz Bahraman Najimi, regional and international affairs analyst, member of the Sangar advisory board.
On January 8, a new party was created in Germany by two former leaders of the German Left Party, Sahra Wagenknecht and Amira Mohammed Ali, which is said to change the landscape of German parties.
Sahra Wagenknecht is one of Germany's current popular leaders who fought for her cause in the German Left Party for 30 years. After German reunification, she was known as an orthodox Marxist and led the communist platform within the Left Party. Rosa Luxemburg was and remains her role model. In recent years, she has changed her position and taken a more conservative stance on foreigners and refugee issues.
Now she has created a new party based on German identity and culture, with a circle of German left-wing intellectuals, which is based on German identity, culture, social justice and values.
Sahra Wagenknecht's father was one of the leaders of the Iranian Tudeh party, whose name she never revealed.
Next to her is Amira Mohammed Ali, who until recently was the leader of the Left Party of Germany. Amira Mohammed Ali has an Egyptian father and a German mother, just like Sarah.
Sarah is indirectly supported not only by social and economic figures but also by great German philosophers such as Richard Precht. More importantly, all the German media, both conservative and left-wing, are strangely optimistic about it and constantly promote her. Interestingly, she named her party after herself.
One of Sarah's assistants is Iranian-German professor Shervin Khakshunav, known as a successful German entrepreneur.
Thus, it is hoped that it will not only prevent the rise of a right-wing party with German-fascist tendencies called the Alternative for Germany but also a significant part of the voters of the Social Democratic parties the Green Alliance, and even the conservative Christian Democratic Party.
What made Sahra Wagenknecht interesting to people in crisis was her plan for migrants, which she wants to severely limit. At her press conference on January 8, she said: “Germany needs to stop its nonsense immigration policy and instead welcome political immigrants into a country that has reached its lowest level in years.”
Based on this, she mentioned post-Taliban Afghanistan three times, harshly criticized the policies of the coalition government, and stated: “Thousands of Afghan men and women who honestly cooperated with Germany are in danger and dying under Taliban control and were not transferred to Germany. Instead, immigrants are accepted under the name of labor and come to Germany, paying tens of thousands of euros to smugglers. This policy is wrong because in Germany the gap between rich and poor is too wide, and poor Germans cannot help their children get a good education. As a result, the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich.”
She reiterated that Afghans must be saved.
In matters of foreign policy, she called on Germany to return to the traditional policy proposed by Willy Brandt, whose goal was the coexistence of East and West. She supports peace in Ukraine and negotiations with Russia so that Germany can regain cheap supplies from Russia.
In the late 1990s, British Marxist philosopher and historian Eric Hobsbawm said, “The ideology of the twenty-first century will be a mixture of socialist and conservative elements,” and Sahra Wagenknecht brought such an ideology to the fore.
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Even before the Germans in the Movement for the Right of Self-Determination of Persian Speakers, we proposed such an ideology in the Movement's strategic document, the basis of which is Persian identity, origin, and language with modern justice and cultural and religious traditions.
