I'm Susie Weizmann on Jacoben radio today endoahan, a teacher from Ireland who's lived in Germany

for 25 years and is a member of Delinka, joins us to analyze Germany's recent election

called the political earthquake.

The election surprise was that the far right, AFD, gained 94 seats in the German parliament,

making it larger and more influential than the leftist Delinkke with the center represented by Angela Merkel

eroded.

We'll get under O'Callaghan's take on what this election portends for Germany, Europe,

and indeed the world.

And Richard Lickman joins us to discuss the notion and failures

of democracy in the current period.

How do we characterize a system that has the form of democracy but not the substance?

Has this always been the case or is there something new in the era of Trump?

And are the features of what Richard sees as the limits of democracy contingent and passing or the

permanent state of affairs. All this on Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wisman and very

first time we're going to analyze the political earthquake that was the German

election.

And what makes this a political earthquake is that the center has lost its power in a sense.

Angela Merkel was returned to power, but the far right in Germany has gained the alternative for Deutschland or the

AFD.

It's a far right nationalist party, some are calling it openly fascist at least in part, and

they now have something like 94 seats and they won more

than 12 percent and more importantly it looks like the far right which some call

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