Bodo Ramelow has an inkling of the spirits that his party will invoke when it responds to the call from its East German representative, Pellmann.
The Leipzig left promises the federal government and the traffic light coalition a "hot autumn" with Monday demonstrations on (East) Germany's streets.
The Thuringian Prime Minister and Oberrealo of the Left warns against this strategy and urges compliance with the "distance rule" to right-wing extremist organizations during social protests.
After the refugee crisis and Corona, AfD, Reich citizens and conspiracy believers are already using the Ukraine war and its social consequences for the population to mobilize against this state.
Cynically hijacked instrument of the Monday demos
In recent years, the Left Party has had to learn in state and local elections that many of its voters are receptive to the slogans from the far right.
Höcke also delights former left-wing voters when he agitates against “those up there” and an allegedly corrupt caste of politicians with no heart for the needs of the little people.
And the instrument of the Monday demonstrations against the GDR regime, which had already been cynically hijacked by the left as the successor party to the SED, was successfully adopted by Pegida in Dresden.
If the left is also serious about their laborious distancing from the Russian war of aggression, then, unlike the AfD, they must clearly name the originator of the gas crisis in their protests: the Russian despot Putin.