according to a study from the University of Basel the majority of protesters in Germany and Switzerland come from a rather left-wing (although overall politically heterogenous), academic, middle class background. What unites them is a complete estrangement from the political system. Now one could ask and further research where this feeling comes from and what you could do against it but labelling them all Nazis is the easier, more comfortable solution.
It has had a strange effect here in Austria. The hippies and far-left often espouse conspiracy theories about vaccines and modern medicine more generally, but the far-right has been so prominent in the protests that they became rather embarrassed about it, and prefer to stay silent.
This is something that you can count on: antifascists won’t march together with the far-right, no matter what.
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Far-right protesting authoritarian measures.
2021 is a gift that keeps on giving.
according to a study from the University of Basel the majority of protesters in Germany and Switzerland come from a rather left-wing (although overall politically heterogenous), academic, middle class background. What unites them is a complete estrangement from the political system. Now one could ask and further research where this feeling comes from and what you could do against it but labelling them all Nazis is the easier, more comfortable solution.
It has had a strange effect here in Austria. The hippies and far-left often espouse conspiracy theories about vaccines and modern medicine more generally, but the far-right has been so prominent in the protests that they became rather embarrassed about it, and prefer to stay silent.
This is something that you can count on: antifascists won’t march together with the far-right, no matter what.