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Far-right party in the lead? AfD is far-right? Based on the writings of Karl Marx I would have thought the AfD was far-left.<br><br>He wrote a letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt in April 9, 1870). In this letter, Marx dissects the situation in Great Britain, where hundreds of thousands of impoverished Irish people fled famine and misery for English industrial cities. Here, he wrote directly about the mechanism at play:<br><br>&quot;Due to the ever-increasing concentration of land ownership, Ireland constantly sends its surplus population to the English labor market, thereby driving down wages and degrading the moral and material condition of the English working class.&quot;<br><br>He then described how this created a deep rift within the domestic working class:<br><br>&quot;Every industrial and commercial center in England now possesses a working class split into two hostile camps: English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of living.&quot;<br>Marx went so far as to conclude that this antagonism was the very secret behind the bourgeoisie&#39;s power:<br><br>&quot;This antagonism is the secret of the English working class&#39;s powerlessness, despite its organization. It is the secret of the capitalist class&#39;s maintenance of its power. And that class is fully aware of it.&quot;<br><br>In his magnum opus, <b>Capital</b> (Volume 1), Marx introduced the concept of the &quot;industrial reserve army&quot; (*die industrielle Reservearmee*).<br><br>His thesis was that capitalism relies on a constant surplus of unemployed or underemployed workers. When the economy booms and workers begin demanding higher wages and better conditions, capital draws upon this reserve army to increase the labor supply. If the domestic reserve runs dry, capitalists import labor from abroad—or relocate production to where labor is cheap. For Marx, then, mass migration was:<br><br>- Forced upon the migrant, who was uprooted by the destruction of their homeland&#39;s economy at the hands of imperialism or capital.<br><br>- A tool for suppressing wages used by factory owners, who could employ newcomers to break local unions and strikes.<br><br>- A source of ethnic and national division that prevented workers from uniting against those in power.<br><br>Replace Irish migrants with MENA immigrants, and it is clear that AfD is closely aligned with Karl Marx and Socialism.