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While falling just short of an absolute majority, the AfD surged into first place in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, exit polls ⁠showed, putting the far right within reach ​of power at ‌the state level for ‌the first time since the second world war.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/07/esuu-s07.html

The Nazis achieved a better result in a state election on only two occasions before Hitler’s coming to power in January 1933—in May 1932 in Oldenburg, with 48.4 percent, and June 1932 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, with 49 percent. In Anhalt (part of what is now Saxony-Anhalt), the Nazis secured 40.7 percent in April 1932 and formed one of the first Nazi-led state governments. In the Reichstag election in November 1932, the last before Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, the Nazis received 33.1 percent. Since the end of the Third Reich, no far-right party has ever again achieved a comparably high election result.

This result does not mean that every AfD voter is a Nazi. The AfD is not a fascist mass party. It is a product of the shift to the right across the entire bourgeois political spectrum and owes its rise to the degeneration of the trade unions and the parties that once claimed to represent the interests of the workers. They have betrayed the workers so often and so thoroughly that the AfD has been able to capitalise on the outrage and frustration this has caused.

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[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fascism is what happens when the working class existentially gives up on leftist movements being able to help them because neoliberalism has so wholy and completely failed to provide them a decent life.

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It ain't, but I see that you're already working in that direction. Good luck.

[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do me a favor and try educating yourself about the history of fascism before you confidently assert incorrect things about it.

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

The same to you bud.