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Wow, I thought the AfD was the rightmost of the German parties. I wonder if the fascists (not being hyperbolic, Mussolini advertised fascism as a "third way", t

Wow, I thought the AfD was the rightmost of the German parties. I wonder if the fascists (not being hyperbolic, Mussolini advertised fascism as a "third way", the others being communism and liberalism) are localized in Westphalia and Bayern or are more widespread. They can't be very popular. Hang the Greens makes me think this is a western thing. Wouldn't they be hanging Die Linke in the east? Anyway, a Red-Red-Green result would be just as much an insult as some posters. I wish I had money on the SPD, their resurgence seems to have come out nowhere. I was expecting a big rise in Green numbers after the terrible flooding earlier in the year...

gurkendoktor 5y ago
Or maybe they want to hang the Greens specifically because they are less popular in Eastern Germany than Die Linke, so that they don't alienate the large number of previous Linke voters. (And on a less strategic level, the subtitle of the poster suggests that it is about hanging green posters everywhere, because green is also the Third Way's party color. That 'pun' wouldn't have worked with other parties.) I also wonder if parties like The Third Way or the far-left ones aren't partially ops to split the vote on the ends of the spectrum.
imtringued 5y ago
That's strange... facism as a third way... The first time I have seen the phrase "dritter weg" it was here. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft#Weitere_Vertreter_der_Freiwirtschaftslehre https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft#Weitere_Vertret... >Aktion Dritter Weg/Liberalsoziale innerhalb der Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, vertritt freiwirtschaftliche Ideen und veröffentlicht sie in der Zeitschrift Alternativen (siehe Georg Otto) Freiwirtschaft is probably the most neutral/centrist "third way" possible. It's neither leaning toward either capitalism nor communism. Rather, the goal is a natural economic order.
- fourtrees 5y ago
  From a glance at Wikipedia, it looks like the "third way" has been used by organizations with wildly different ideologies all over the world for at least a century now (and I wouldn't be shocked if it could be traced back at least to the French Revolution). I guess I associate it with Mussolini because he was the first I read use it. I wasn't familiar with Gesell and the ideas Freiwirtschaft. It actually sounds like a decent (real) third way, a lot like Georgism, and an idea worthy of debating at least.

gurkendoktor 5y ago

Or maybe they want to hang the Greens specifically because they are less popular in Eastern Germany than Die Linke, so that they don't alienate the large number of previous Linke voters. (And on a less strategic level, the subtitle of the poster suggests that it is about hanging green posters everywhere, because green is also the Third Way's party color. That 'pun' wouldn't have worked with other parties.) I also wonder if parties like The Third Way or the far-left ones aren't partially ops to split the vote on the ends of the spectrum.

imtringued 5y ago

That's strange... facism as a third way... The first time I have seen the phrase "dritter weg" it was here. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft#Weitere_Vertreter_der_Freiwirtschaftslehre https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft#Weitere_Vertret... >Aktion Dritter Weg/Liberalsoziale innerhalb der Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, vertritt freiwirtschaftliche Ideen und veröffentlicht sie in der Zeitschrift Alternativen (siehe Georg Otto) Freiwirtschaft is probably the most neutral/centrist "third way" possible. It's neither leaning toward either capitalism nor communism. Rather, the goal is a natural economic order.

fourtrees 5y ago
From a glance at Wikipedia, it looks like the "third way" has been used by organizations with wildly different ideologies all over the world for at least a century now (and I wouldn't be shocked if it could be traced back at least to the French Revolution). I guess I associate it with Mussolini because he was the first I read use it. I wasn't familiar with Gesell and the ideas Freiwirtschaft. It actually sounds like a decent (real) third way, a lot like Georgism, and an idea worthy of debating at least.