Thilo Sarrazin has written another book. In it he shows an ambivalent relationship with the AfD. However, this is precisely what reveals a lot about today’s right-wing populism.
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Thilo Sarrazin is back with his new book “Germany on the Slippery Path” and continues his right-wing debate topics. Despite the lack of controversy, he remains relevant and is seen as an intellectual enabler of the AfD. Its neoliberal foundation shaped the party, but with the rise of Björn Höcke, different economic views clashed. While Sarrazin hoped for recognition, Höcke wants to destroy the establishment. Höcke’s ethnic criticism of capitalism targets emotions such as fear and hate and places the nation above all else. Sarrazin is increasingly being forgotten by the AfD, which hurts him, but he remains true to himself and is already planning the next book.
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He’s back. For 14 years, since his mega bestseller Germany is abolishing itself from 2010, works itself Thilo Sarrazin Book after book deals with the feeling of German decline. With a mixture of diagnosis and prophecy, the former Berlin Finance Senator and ex-Social Democrat often demonstrated a feel for right-wing debate topics with the potential for escalation. And now so Germany on the wrong trackpart ten of the German dystopia. At first glance, everything is as usual: the usual mix of data chaos and personal empiricism, of fear of foreign infiltration and educated citizen hubris, of eugenics and polemics that became a scandal in the 2010s. At that time, Sarrazin book presentations threatened to degenerate into scuffles. In short: It was a wonderful spectacle for the feature pages, so that three more Sarrazin volumes could easily be filled with old Sarrazin interviews.
