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The left has a lot to show, for better or for worse.

Karl Marx was a savage thinker, but also a great one.

Like no one before him, he made the goal of a free, classless society shine out of the dynamics of the world of work and goods.

The SPD understood severe internal struggles to mean leaving the comfort zone of the only visionary and removing the stigma of betrayal and half-measure from reform policy.

And in the anti-authoritarian revolt of 1968, despite the megalomania, the downright sensual conviction at work that fighting for a better world could be successful.

The real existing German left, which has now given itself a new board, has nothing to show for it.

All the cowardly indecision that characterizes them was evident in the choice of the two women who are now to lead the party.

It smells like moth powder

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With 70.5 percent for Susanne Hennig-Wellsow, the party briefly flashed in the direction of realism, but then with 84.2 percent for Janine Wissler at the same time made it unmistakably clear that it feels more comfortable in the warm house of radical phrases than in the hard field Politics.

There is a smell of moth powder in the party.

Dietmar Bartsch's reform milieu was humiliated.

How this happened is reminiscent of the methods of communists of yore in internal party struggle: If there is even the smallest chance of isolating “deviants”, then decency and agreements no longer count.

Even if some leaders claim otherwise: The left has said goodbye to the government participation project.

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This is the end of a long run.

When the party emerged from the SED at the same time as the implosion of the GDR in the late 1980s, it seemed like a stair joke in history.

The party that had once destroyed the East German SPD was presumptuous enough as the PDS to carry its gloomy torch into the enlarged Federal Republic.

Contrary to expectations, it had success as an East German nostalgia party.

No Godesberg, nowhere

When the Left then became an all-German party, the reformers, who meanwhile had a majority in the East, lost their importance.

Now they are almost completely marginalized.

It is also their own fault.

Gregor Gysi, Dietmar Bartsch and the previous chairman Katja Kipping have failed to fight with verve and passion for a Godesberg of the left and at least to move closer to the SPD.

The weekend party convention was the receipt for it.

Hennig-Wellsow and Wissler elected as chairmen

Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow are the new chairmen of the party Die Linke.

It is the first all-female dual leadership.

The two politicians take over from Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger.

Source: WELT / Michael Wüllenweber