For example, last year’s (or was it 2023) farmer protests in Germany – the trigger was the plan of the then government to gradually reduce state subsidies for diesel for the farmers.
Ironically, the far-right, who have it in their program that they want to cut all subsidies, successfully hijacked the protests.
@syvash
I think the outrage over the cancellation of subsidies for “agricultural diesel” was deliberately stirred up by lobby groups and used as a show of force. The real problems facing farmers run much deeper and would require a complete structural change that would call into question consumer behavior and, as a result, industrial production as a whole.
That is why the farmers’ association had its mercenaries occupy the streets with heavy equipment.
@syvash
The farmers’ associations (not all small farmers, of course!) already played a “very special” role during National Socialism, exploiting forced laborers and, after the war, taking advantage of the plight of those bombed out of the cities and the displaced, trading their last possessions for a piece of butter or a sack of flour.
@syvash
In the former GDR, former LPG board members distinguished themselves after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the privatization of cooperative farms, often enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary members using dubious legal tricks, and were welcomed with open arms by West German associations.
Not just that, but fossil fuel in itself.
For example, last year’s (or was it 2023) farmer protests in Germany – the trigger was the plan of the then government to gradually reduce state subsidies for diesel for the farmers.
Ironically, the far-right, who have it in their program that they want to cut all subsidies, successfully hijacked the protests.
If only european farmers could fucking read
@syvash
I think the outrage over the cancellation of subsidies for “agricultural diesel” was deliberately stirred up by lobby groups and used as a show of force. The real problems facing farmers run much deeper and would require a complete structural change that would call into question consumer behavior and, as a result, industrial production as a whole.
That is why the farmers’ association had its mercenaries occupy the streets with heavy equipment.
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That, and also the “right-wing” political forces (There may well be an overlap)
@syvash
The farmers’ associations (not all small farmers, of course!) already played a “very special” role during National Socialism, exploiting forced laborers and, after the war, taking advantage of the plight of those bombed out of the cities and the displaced, trading their last possessions for a piece of butter or a sack of flour.
@syvash
In the former GDR, former LPG board members distinguished themselves after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the privatization of cooperative farms, often enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary members using dubious legal tricks, and were welcomed with open arms by West German associations.
@syvash
The article is in German, but I think you’ll find ways and means to translate it.😉
https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/das/_erste/2019/01/2019014/_akte/_d/_bauernlobby.html
Cool, thanks
German is my second foreign language so I can read it
Yeah, the whole reintegration of east Germany went really… peculiarly. I still can’t believe the SED was (mostly) just rebranded as die Linke.