Not content with simply vandalising business premises and launching boycotts, left-wing political activists in Germany are taking a step closer to extremism by threatening more direct attacks on ‘the rich.’
Security forces say that groups are operating under the slogan “Follow the Money” and intend to do damage to the private property of wealthy citizens.
Some activists have already proved that these threats are not empty, boasting in an anonymous leaflet—titled Autonomous Blättchen and quoted in Bild—about a “militant nighttime stroll through” Berlin’s wealthy Grunewald district that resulted in “arson.”
We burned a transformer station that supplied electricity to the neighborhood. And we set fire to a radio mast belonging to various mobile phone providers and the police radio.
The sprawling pamphlet points to eco zealotry—accusing ‘the rich,’ “who are usually also the powerful,” of leaving “us and our children a destroyed earth”—and a support for open borders—blaming ‘the rich’ for “inciting the population with German passports against so-called migrants.”
In a poor attempt at justification, its authors add that since ‘the rich’ “cannot be overcome with appeals, persuasion, or simple information,” violence is justified.
And it is clear that plans are already underway for greater things than the shutting off of power supplies:
We can break into their living space while they mentally count their dollars, euros, rubles, Bitcoin, or ounces of gold … And we can disappear unseen into the forest with the wild boars in the dark of night.
NieuwRechts editor Daniel de Liever noted that while the establishment media is obsessed with highlighting alleged right-wing extremism, “this is one of those times when you can actually talk about extremism.”
Responding to the first attack and subsequent threatening pamphlet, a security official told Bild that left-wing politicians had “empowered” such action, and that “the left-wing extremist scene is becoming increasingly radicalised, propagating class struggle.”
