Monday demonstration on October 16, 1989 in Leipzig
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The party Die Linke has recently been very busy with itself, both in terms of content and sexuality.
In order to push her tyranny further, she has now announced an autumn of protests.
At least the left-wing politician Sören Pellmann, the so-called Eastern Commissioner of his parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.
"We need new Monday demonstrations in the East," Pellmann said.
Because of the gas charge.
I found it kind of funny that the left had a commissioner for Eastern Europe.
I thought that was a tautology, because as a left-wing politician you are almost automatically a commissioner for the East.
But I found the call for Monday demonstrations even more surprising.
Certainly, Monday is not a bad day to hit the streets.
The mood is already in the basement at the beginning of the week, the willingness to let out his frustration is even greater than usual.
In Germany, however, the term "Monday Demonstration" is clearly given: to those courageous citizens who took to the streets in East German cities in autumn 1989 to demonstrate against the oppressive regime of the GDR.
These Monday demonstrations became a symbol of civil courage and the irrepressible desire for freedom.
To refer to that role model as a demo organizer today is vain and presumptuous.
It is particularly strange for left-wing politicians.
As is well known, the demonstrations in autumn 89 came at a rather inconvenient time for their predecessors.
So that there is no misunderstanding - what bothers me is not the aim of the planned protests.
I also think the gas allocation is wrong.
The utility companies should have been saved from tax money as a joint task.
Many gas customers are tenants and have not chosen to be gas customers themselves.
Low earners in particular should not be forced to ensure the survival of gas suppliers.
The history-forgotten appropriation of a historical model is bold.
Unfortunately, that has now become a tradition.
After 1989, protests were already being made against Hartz IV (PDS, WASG, etc.), against refugees (Pegida) and against corona measures (“lateral thinkers”) under the term Monday demonstration.
And now against energy prices.
Historical appropriation is popular not only with the left, but also with the new right.
Greetings to Jana from Kassel, who in all seriousness compared herself to Sophie Scholl because she had been "resisting" the corona measures for months.
Or to those fellow citizens who stuck a yellow star to their arm during demonstrations because they compared their fate as unvaccinated with that of the Jews persecuted and killed by the Nazi regime.
Anyone who tries such analogies has at least one screwed up.
He or she discredits the issue simply by the form of the protest.
It's perfectly fine not to take these people seriously.