BMW for the People! German Coalition Politician Revives Marxism
Found on Bloomberg on Friday, 03 May 2019
A leading politician from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner took a page straight out of Karl Marx’s playbook, calling for the people to take control of large companies in the battle against profit-hungry capitalists.
“The distribution of profits must be democratically controlled,” Kevin Kuehnert, the leader of the youth wing of the Social Democratic Party, told Die Zeit newspaper in an interview published on international labor day. “That excludes that there is a capitalist owner at this business,” he said, using luxury-car maker BMW AG as an example.
Marxism and Communism has failed so very hard every single time it had been tried; and where it is still offically in place you do not want to live. At some point you just have to learn from history.