What? Did the left colonize the global south, destroy their economies and slaughter their populations?
The only two countries, the USSR and China, to ever pose a genuine threat to the imperial core have been socialist. The modern capitalist Russia is a disgrace to its Soviet legacy.
Wagenknecht’s BSW doesn’t just get it from what’s now referred to as the German “center” (i.e., the parties of warmongers and anti-working class policies).
It also gets a lot of criticism from the left – especially [Jacobin article] on the immigration issue.
Can a New German Party Steer the European Left in a More Effective Direction? ( www.nakedcapitalism.com )