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Germany: Still Divided

In Germany, the far-right, anti-immigration party  Alternative for Germany (AfD)  routinely achieves its most substantial electoral victories in rural, remote, and economically marginalised areas—particularly in the former  East Germany —where the actual percentage of foreign-born residents and immigrants is exceptionally low.  This trend was starkly illustrated by the AfD's historic landslide victory in the eastern state of  Saxony-Anhalt , a region with a very low proportion of foreigners. In November 2019 Gareth Dale provided a background .
A clarification by Richard Seymour " When a wing of the left criticises "identity politics", they usually mean the kind of politics that reduces oppression to representation and that, as such, is apt to celebrate the inclusion of a right-wing fundamentalist woman in Trump's team because she is a woman and hence "diversification". They want a more substantive attack on racism, sexism, oppression of all kinds. When a wing of the liberal centre criticises "identity politics", they usually m ean to criticise what they think of as the overly clamorous and over-hasty demands of women, gays, African Americans, migrants and others for justice. This, they claim, puts 'progressives' in a difficult position when it comes to building coalitions (with racists, homophobes, etc) and achieving real reforms. When the Right attacks "identity politics", they mean any concession whatsoever to the idea that anyone other than white bourgeois me...