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Germany’s far right is winning over the young (www.politico.eu)

submitted 9 months ago by MamboNo5@lemmings.world to c/world@quokk.au

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Online campaigns like these have helped radicalize a broad swath of Germany’s youth, making extreme-right ideas that were once relegated to the margins of German political discourse increasingly mainstream. The Young Alternative, the AfD youth organization that put out the dance video, has been classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist group since last year.

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I can see that from an American perspective. But in Europe we’re also very familiar with socialist centrism. In fact, the word socialism no longer has any meaning here.

[–] randomname01 2 points 9 months ago

I’m European too, and our left wing parties have all started sliding towards the right. Which ones of them are actually proposing anything outside of the current neoliberal framework?

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

socialist centrism

Do… do you know what either of those words mean????

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yes but European parties don’t