Merkel Challenger Martin Schulz Is A Staunch Marxist

Posted: 2/5/2017  Updated: 2/11/2017

Update Of 2/11/2017

I had overlooked this article containing an interview with the former president of the European Parliament published 3/21/2013 (emphasis added):

1. “... We can only develop a true European democracy if people fear the European Parliament. My job as President is to make sure that the European Parliament is taken seriously and feared. ..,”
   [Seriously?]
2. “.... Sure, things have gone wrong in Greece, but what makes me angry is that there are people who have to look for food in rubbish bins while at the same time super-wealthy Greeks buy expensive homes in London and Berlin.”
   [What a distorted world view! Marxist to the bone!]

Original Article With/Without Revisions

Germany has a new contender for replacing the highly overrated chancellor Angela Merkel in the upcoming general elections in  September of 2017.

However, Martin Schulz (a social democrat, or member of the SPD party) is a hardcore marxist. Further, he is basically a lifelong, mediocre career politician. He is disappointing. Years ago I read a published essay by Mr. Schulz, which left little doubt that he is a marxist (Unfortunately, I do not remember title nor publication or the date it was published).

Martin Schulz has written other curious essays as well (emphasis added):

1. Europe’s Opportunity In Hollande (5/8/2012) “... François Hollande’s victory is a fresh chance for Europe. It should spell the end of a policy oriented exclusively towards austerity, which has paralyzed our economies and divided the EU. The new French president’s commitment to a European growth policy has brought hope to citizens, and should not alarm anyone – certainly not the financial markets. … Indeed, Europe needs a master plan to avoid a tailspin of recession, growing unemployment, and weakening banking systems. … The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds. … The EU also needs common initiatives to replace piece-meal bilateral agreements on tax evasion and tax havens, which undermine the goal of a fair society.”
   [Schultz here highly praises the recently elected new president of France, Hollande. I wonder whether he still thinks Hollande was such a great politician. Some of Schulz’s language is quite comical!]
2. European Council Meeting: Are Young People as Important as the Banks? “... a telling question put to me by a young Spanish woman last year in Madrid, which I cannot get out of my mind. That question was: ‘You managed to find EUR 700 billion to bailout the banks, so why can’t you find some money for us?’ Surely the time has come for us to acknowledge that young people are at least as systemically important as the banks. … The Youth Guarantee, which has already been approved by the 27 EU ministers for employment and social affairs, needs to be written into the law of each Member State at the earliest opportunity. Under this scheme, young people will have the guarantee of being offered a job, apprenticeship or traineeship or the opportunity to continue their education or training within four months of leaving education or becoming unemployed. Given the current situation, it is important for that guarantee to be backed up by the law. … In general, though, the best way of combating youth unemployment is to focus on growth. But how, exactly? By, for example, stimulating investment that will generate jobs for young people. And where will the money come from? From all available sources, including the financial transaction tax and action to put a stop to tax evasion and close down tax havens. If social justice is to mean anything, bankers and insurers need to play a part in securing our children’s future.”
   [Do I even need to comment on this? This candidate is a marxist moron! Like Obama, no clue about economics!]

It was reported that Schulz thinks that the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm was great! “When Hobsbawn died, Martin Schulz  tweeted: "Eric Hobsbawm was a man of extraordinary qualities. His books have greatly inspired and influenced my political and historical thoughts."” (Source)

(Photograph source)

Like many socialists before him, Schulz has publicly denied to be a marxist! (Source)