attn Germans and/or Europeans: what is the deal with the German

[bobbieinok]

controversy over Muentefering's 'attack on capitalism'??

there's some info at yahoo.de, but I'm not finding it much help

[reorg]

1. good background article from WSWS

It's about the upcoming state elections in NRW.

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For the last 38 years, the SPD has held the post of prime minister in this state, which is the most densely populated in the Federal Republic. For the past 10 years, the SPD has ruled the state in coalition with the Green Party.

However, recent polls point to a clear defeat for the SPD in the election, to be held in six weeks’ time.

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... The captains—state Prime Minister Peer Steinbrück, Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and SPD Federal Chairman Franz Müntefering all spoke at the rally—see no way of preventing the imminent disaster and exhort the assembled membership to keep calm.

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Schröder and Müntefering also made appeals to business circles. They demagogically criticised social injustice, and Müntefering went so far as to declare he wanted to tame capitalism—although he immediately apologised for his choice of words.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/germ-a14_prn.shtml