Andreas Babler would do well not to be a Marxist

2023-05-25 19:45:00

SPÖ presidential candidate Andreas Babler said on Wednesday that he was a “Marxist” (pulse 4) or “not a Marxist” (ZiB 2). Apart from the inconsistency of the self-assessment, it is astonishing how carelessly a man who wants to become Chancellor plays with a historically extremely charged term. Even if many people no longer know this in our historically forgotten times: Marxism does not mean in all harmlessness that people are better off and that nobody should go hungry anymore. Other thinkers and …