And on demand. Video. Pick up on im here with historian and political analyst has to blunt the oldest son of the late social democrat chancellor of the valley but well be speaking about to spain with the left in germany and the nation. Have missed the many people your fathers drive for reform in the singular charisma made him something of a german kennedy said he was held in high esteem respected even loved to do it not only in germany that did you also what my him its all. Before that. I had Great Respect for my b. B. My whole life and i retired which i was a little activity here when robbie but i was never uncritical of him about how to need weekly to throw this to him one. With some very Strong Political differences in a certain phase of my life if i didnt the defense wanted to make it going. On to the more Common Ground to get on from the late seventys. If im going to they can pull a symbolic gesture to make up all the world famous you know twenty two when he felt to be sneezing well so what was your response not. I was moved on the understood the message. That someone who is completely unburdened by blame can apologize for the crimes of his country and really for the countrys identifies with. Cruzan followed we played just like the plan sounds that he didnt fault was near is just an iraq war preparations but in front of the monuments to commemorate the heroes of the warsaw ghetto modify forget all the harm it was said that not a week went by and no i dont like that you didnt think about the crimes of the nazis the us how did it feel recently to see hit the salutes and hear the fascist chance of neo nazis marching through chemicals and precious to should have warned before. They got to see this model its always surrender as. He. Is in fact is that since the Second World War theres always been a degree of neo nazi reza jots on the youre not if you. Have a script that appears to be growing. Do you not see its debatable whether need or not see it was in iowa. But certainly is growing is the shift towards the far right. But i would differentiate here and say that not every right wing supporters and thats. Not true but neo nazis are of course trying to capitalize on such rightwing sympathies by steering them to the extreme right. To flush out about it but its not just the neo nazis and that seeing a boost right wing populism is gaining ground across germany how much of the social democrats to blame if i told you ive been in it but when things go wrong others always share the blame. Or the things have gone wrong. Not only has a movement grown to the rights of the christian democrats whats your own good look like in other European Countries this movement has managed to make inroads among the traditional base leftist parties. And then one is attracting the voters who previously backed the goals of social democracy. Aka the taliban he. Told for. Weve got to be ready for harvest because how could this happen at the the social democrats behind a vacuum that the right could really. Well i would say that this is my opinion. In kalamazoo centrist shift away from the social issues which like the core of leftist politics in a very broad sense. Karen along with the concept of democratization gets invited into this hall to be more copies if you will a pretty of any kind in the last election the social democrats on the mountain schultz campaign for greater solidarity and then less divided society exactly what youre calling for. Justice is done campaign didnt show what that really means its. People the slogans regarding justice and solidarity remains too general. So were going to shoot i was all this hype around schultz at first it was considerable but then not the time this post predicted over thirty percent there was even potential for winning more than forty percent. So the approach was right not enough effort was made to demonstrate what it would mean for voters and officially in the end martin should celeb his advisors to water down his agenda possibly against his better judgment. The best and i think this. Year we will be able to type in your father in your heart this day the social democrats won forty five point eight percent of the vote next time they might end up not even garnering ten percent but thats what im going to build from a social democrat chairman also lafontaine is pushing a broader Left Wing Movement with his wife Zahra Bachman quest from the left party wanting to go on board and its a wife that makes the cartoon for its an. Awful. Just the basic idea is that the three parties which are on the left of. The greens. Under social democrats. And which are no longer capable of attracting their traditional base. So so the working class it does the working class still exist its different you get yes it does its change must be but it exists most of the population consists of who cleans and the rest primarily of selfemployed and small businesses. In order to get these are the people this movement wants to attract without of course excluding voters and urban centers more progressive beliefs or thats not the point. But the social democrats no longer seem able to bridge the gap between different groups as they were able to do you know back in the early seventys just. How we hold. These two trying to get what im going to but its a broader Left Wing Movement necessary couldnt the social democrats not just go back to their roots or get a high from that matter if were going to justify i dont want to rule out that that might happen at some point but the organizations at the moment are so stuck in their structures and the ways they operate through christmas if that they need some impetus from the outside. In poor form you want to make understatement there are many people who are once involved in politics as Party Members or sympathizers. You know want nothing to do with these parties and be cleared of all. Parties and stuff and to have this level in the others were never in a party an organ vietnam dont get this you need to let the ideas to attract these groups as well and through. The past not about destroying the parties that exist. Its going to moving in mobilizing and influencing the. Senate would be for the social questions not the only the right wing populist alternative to germany go to. Yet that the governments migration policy was bringing too many foreigners into the country does the left in germany have a problem with terms like nation and National Feeling and how do you mind. Just yes and of course that goes back to National Socialism who will buy them on this with a less allergy to nationalism actually surface later on were not alone i mean reminded. Us in a different part of the no no were going to noir called politics a policy of conciliation and domestic and Foreign Policy is that were divided nation is not was anchored in a particular notion of National Identity on. The question is how its approached the nation is a Community Event by consciousness feeling and communication this is a reality like the nation state and its all about the approach these are to my what should the approach be social democracy should be linked back to ideas the ideas of democracy and social justice. And this would not at all be artificial but connected to the historical reality that already played a role one hundred forty years ago but for not from think we did before it was an idea of a Fraternal League of nations instead of one nation pitted against another this was also a clear aspect of your fathers attitude to reunification which many on the left feared would herald a return to nationalism at least most busy and doesnt nation have to be dissolved in order to create International Leagues or a united europe in because of open. Three but definitely has to be dissolved is the idea of the old school sovereign nation the states are not under which belongs in the past in that. There is no provision for the nations part of a community. I think in mind nation states exist and we still need them like this components of your. Europe and they have the same problem as the e. U. Impeding finding a political direction. And that direction should be given by the nations that already exist within yes its completely unrealistic to imagine that traditional nations can just dissolve like sugar and caffeine all through. Their two great income its pretty good as its been in but that was a left wing notion well there are some voices within the broader Left Wing Movement to that effect that they dont but its never been advocated by the left as a whole big guns will give you that you can demand so if ive understood you correctly nations and internationalism or National Feeling and International Orientation are not necessarily contradict track. Thats not at all contradictory to what was actually part of the social democratic tradition social democracy was never Anti National or a National Unity and you are not given the internet was international but built on the foundations of existing nations and people not your own but your father could your father represent his position yes i dont tend to reference him or his positions but in this regard we agree and one hundred percent would not put twenty first on. Preventers invisible and weve come to the end of this interesting discussion now for the three questions that we always ask our guests to complete for a National Feeling for me and thats neither right wing nor left wing because. The not true nation is a community of culture consciousness and communication tools can munch off. This is a social reality and what matters is the approach we want to. Hear alive today i would tell my father. That many people even those who criticized and acknowledge his significant accomplishments that. Weve gotten good. People. They find their own form the social democrats have to see. They have to get off the floor of neo liberalism so that instead of concentrating on special marginal social groups for a focus on the working class. Through all your communes or none. Of. This ill button and focus. It up on me to run thank you for being with us today thank you. Such. In good shape at the tightest the silence can. Ever tell you just a brief scene. 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