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Die Linke ist just the rebranded KPD (Communist Party), which was later transformed into the SED (Socialist Party of the former GDR) and is now Die Linke.

They might be on the right side of internet issues, but they are very much on the wrong side of much more important issues.

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Die Linke is an amalgamation of a lot of parties, among them the former left wing of the SPD (shortly independent as WASG), and purged 95% of its former SED members during reunification.

Sure, they're communists. But they're not the same as the Stalinist, Soviet-controlled SED.

And yet to this very day they refuse to condemn the acts of the GDR. They're nothing but a bunch of populists who will tell you anything to get your vote. I found an election campaign some years ago where they were running two different posters especially amusing. One read: "Wealth for everyone" and the other read: "Tax wealth!". So, what they really want are more taxes for everyone?

Makes perfect sense to me. Tax the wealthy, use the extra income to fight poverty, creating a baseline of wealth for everyone. More or less the policy of every social democratic party ever.

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