German Left Party denounces “Yellow Vest” protests

[wsws.org]

I took the following from the comments being it was stated quite well as a universal issue.

"Abhorrence of any revolt from below is written into the DNA of the Left Party..."

Because they know the material interests of the working class are crosswise with the policies of the ruling elite.

"The December 4 editorial in the daily Le Monde states that the inability of successive governments to respond to the global financial crisis of 2008 has “fuelled anger on the most powerful of breeding grounds, the sense of inequality.”

The pseudo-left is competing to keep the other capitalist faction from gaining a political advantage from the consequences of those policies.

But that's only an intramural scrimmage.

"The outpouring of solidarity to the Bush dynasty expressed by the Democratic Party leaders, and especially Warren and Sanders, expresses a fundamental truth of bourgeois politics: despite the ferocious infighting between the Republicans and the Democrats, both parties fundamentally agree on all the basic questions. They agree on a defense of inequality, “strong borders”, war, and the system upon which their wealth and position in society rests: capitalism. It is not a question of morality or personal friendships but one of a shared class interest." -Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren glorify the late President Bush

Both capitalist factions, more than anything else, fear a politically independent and unified working class because they know its material interests are crosswise with the policies of the ruling elite.

“The potential of ultra-rightists in the ranks of the movement is worrying”, he said. In Germany “such fraternisation of left and right-wing sentiments is unthinkable”.

But that's only an intramural scrimmage? In other words, a dog and pony show at your local fair grounds. As we get here it's also over there. It's a god dam traveling circus of the westernized ruling society. Over there they are attempting to label the movement as a far right wing effort to scare the public. Here, they use a label of socialist. I'm waiting for the moment they start calling us Russian loyalist. This is kind of like another example of using the truth to get their false results. Trump has mastered this. The right in essence is calling the kettle black, as the pot. The left capitalist in collaboration manage a way to strategically align with the right without publicly outing themselves. Sanders and Warren are masters at this.

(The Left Party can accommodate and even ally itself with the far-right—as its idol Alexis Tsipras did in Greece, where he implemented a reckless austerity program in a coalition with the far-right Independent Greeks. But the Left Party cannot accommodate and ally itself with a movement that threatens the capitalist order.)

(If extreme right-wingers seek to influence the movement and are partly able to do so, then it is only because they can exploit the anger and frustration of broad layers with those alleged “leftists” who have been and remain at the forefront of the attacks on the working class. This applies not only to the French Socialists and the German SPD, but also to the Left Party, which is pressing ahead with austerity policies in Berlin and other federal states where the party is part of or heads the administration.)

Trump from the soap box of Fox news has managed to corral his supporters to believe in the truth of fake news. Yet most who are awake know Fox is also, if not thee most, one of the most, providers of fake and or manipulated news in the US. Clinton, rigged elections, immigrant issues, Russia Gate, just off the top of my head that in some degree are truths manipulated to create a hostile environment and illusion.