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That was fast. Just over two weeks ago, Marvin Neumann from Brandenburg was elected as the new co-chair of the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative (JA). Just eight days later, the federal executive committee of the mother party became aware of Neumann's racist statements. The party leadership quickly distanced themselves, considered expelling the 27-year-old and invited him to a hearing. But shortly before the appointment scheduled for Monday, Neumann announced his exit from the AfD, with which he also lost the JA chairmanship.

But what remains is the problem area YES. Classified as a suspected case by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the organization of an estimated 1,500 young AfD members and supporters has repeatedly attracted attention in recent years with cases of drastic right-wing radicalism and waves of resignations. The planned consolidation, which was attempted in mid-April with the new election of the federal executive board, looked like that almost all supporters of the wing officially dissolved in the AfD were elected, which the constitution protection classifies as guaranteed right-wing extremist.

The political position of the majority of the board of directors was revealed on Monday after Neumann left the company.

JA Vice Vice President Tomasz Froelich - he is press spokesman for the AfD delegation in the European Parliament led by party leader Jörg Meuthen - sent a statement from the JA board, which states:

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“The federal board of the AfD put pressure on us to distance ourselves from Neumann.

Such a distancing is out of the question for us. ”Further:“ To silence Neumann and thus thousands of young people in this country for statements like those made by him creates an atmosphere of fear and worries the business of the political opponent. ”It could not be "that even within the AfD the left cancel culture finds its way".

It can be concluded from this that the JA leaders do not want to distance themselves from Neumann statements such as those that black Africans, unlike white Europeans, cannot become Germans, that “black Germans and Europeans” do not exist and that “liberalism is rubbish hostile to the people”.

At the weekend, the Saxon JA defended another statement by Neumann expressly against criticism.

Namely the tweet that in discussions about state models "one often arrives at the Chinese model as roughly the most sensible (sic!) Form of sustainable state, economic and social order".

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Such a thing, according to the Saxon JA, is a “questioning of the liberal capitalist universalism of the West”.

You have to "look openly at what you can learn from the Chinese system".

What is striking about this openness to the conditions in the Chinese dictatorship, in addition to the ideological positioning, is the intellectual claim that such YES groups carry before them.

Neumann in particular, who has already had himself photographed as a dandy in a checked three-piece suit with a pocket square, likes to be witty.

He wanted, he said in an interview, to understand liberalism as a "system" that made possible the concealment of real power with the premise of the development of a rational, abstract human being and the negation of a concrete, permanent sovereign.

Participation in right-wing radical theory formation

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This theoretical gesture reveals the influence of the Institute for State Policy, which is suspected of being run by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which has developed into a cadre forge for young right-wing radicals on the premises of the small publisher Götz Kubitschek in Schnellroda in Saxony-Anhalt and which regularly supplies them with stylistically steep ideology .

Accordingly, one of the first to call for “solidarity with the JA federal chairman Marvin Neumann” was Schnellroda regular author Benedikt Kaiser last week.

This is easily overlooked when looking at the often activist JA: Many members of the AfD youth organization are also concerned with the feeling of participating in right-wing theory formation and intellectualization.

And a lot of money will be available for this in just a few months:

When the AfD moves into the Bundestag for the second time, there should be no more obstacles to the party-affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation receiving a high double-digit million amount from the state every year.

A large part of this is likely to flow into scholarship programs, for which, as things stand, mainly students from the JA area will apply.

The Neumann case and the solidarity of the JA executive board with him make it clear what kind of educational interest of the future state-funded youngsters of the party.

It is currently unlikely that less radical forces in the parent party will be able to counteract this.

Because at the latest since the federal party conference in Dresden three weeks ago, the forces of the wing environment are on the advance.

They also razed the bastion of the Meuthen camp in the Berlin regional association, which is moving strongly to the right under the new chairman Kristin Brinker.

In the rbb, Brinker said that the capital AfD sees itself as the “parliamentary arm” of the anti-corona protests.

In the meantime, it became known that Brinker's husband Günter, formerly head of the AfD state himself, launched a call for murder against Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in an internal Facebook chat.

According to Brinker later, this happened accidentally.

How credible this is must remain open.

According to the "Berliner Morgenpost", however, it is certain that the Berlin AfD regional association has now also been classified as a suspected case by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

That fits with the JA.

Meuthen - "We have to be ready to take responsibility"

The AfD wants to go into the election campaign for the federal election as an anti-ban party.

At their federal party conference with 600 delegates in the Dresden trade fair, chairman Jörg Meuthen called on his party to take responsibility.

Source: WORLD