Due to its explicit and overt references to Nazism, the statement by Alternative für Deutschland has sparked concerned reactions among the other political parties, both in Germany and abroad. We—taking the opposite approach, which does not place much weight on “statements”—offer several observations.

The democratic mechanism—which, according to bourgeois ideology, is supposed to be the means through which the will of the people—the sovereign people—is expressed—is a formidable tool for imposing the arbitrary will of a very small circle of bourgeoisie, of the oligarchs of capitalism, both international and national. The electorate is steered in the direction dictated by the bourgeoisie. It sets the “agenda” for the “political debate”: security, immigration, national sovereignty (which is, of course, undermined), democracy or fascism, Russia or America, etc.

This is achieved through the extremely powerful tools of propaganda—the mass media—which are controlled by large industrial and financial conglomerates. The Internet, which was supposed to promote “free information,” has inexorably become a key cog in this infernal machine. In newspapers, on television, and on social media, big capital floods the public with propaganda to impose the prejudices that keep the working class subservient to the will of the ruling class.

On the electoral front, the bourgeoisie is invincible.

Instead, we can investigate what is being plotted in each country among the bourgeoisie against the workers, or among rival bourgeois states. What happened this time in Germany?

In one of the 16 federal states, Saxony-Anhalt, the “far-right” party, the AfD, achieved a stunning result of 44% of the vote in the September 6 election, doubling its 21% share from 2021 and winning 39 of the 83 seats in the state parliament.