Our goal is the revolutionary rupture with the status quo. We are fueled by the everyday rage over the oppressive structures of capitalism and the desire for a world that entails a good life for everyone, according to their needs and capabilities. Such a world will not exist without getting rid of capitalist private property, without abolishing classes and exploitation, without overcoming patriarchal and racist oppression and violence. Without breaking with capitalism and its profit logic, there can and will be no solidaric answers for the existential crises and threats of the 21st century - not in Germany and Europe nor globally. A radical democratization of all aspects of life is needed to stop the systematic destruction of our basic foundations of life.
The democratic control over the environment, production and reproduction is blocked by private ownership over the means of production. Radical democratization must therefore start here - and ensure that all areas of society are covered and that all people receive the same rights, regardless of nationality or origin.
The nation-state and its institutions are a fundamental obstacle to this democratization. In the former, the interests of the ruling class and capital are aggregated, on the costs of the global south. Its borders serve control and expulsion and are, in consequence, always bloody. Abolishing the nation-state is, therefore, a necessity - as well as abolishing the European Union, which serves capital interests and organizes Fortress Europe.
We understand revolution as a process in which the bourgeois state and its institutions are overcome in multiple steps. Thereby, parliamentarian politics and majorities might, at best, play a secondary role in this. The system cannot be radically changed without breaking with its rules. Any such attempts have failed. Parties such as Die Linke, Syriza or Podemos exemplify this. Even if we recognize the importance of parties for a left-wing hegemonic project and as a point of contact for left-wing politics in everyday life and work together with them in concrete struggles and campaigns: Our objective is the long-term build-up of societal power outside of the state through the linkage of revolutionary organizing and social movements.
Revolution goes beyond the overthrow of the economic and political order. It means profound changes in our subjectivity and our social relations in everyday life. Today, neoliberal individualization and indifference toward suffering in other parts of the world are omnipresent. It seems difficult to imagine how we would engage with each other and determine our lives in a liberated society. This makes it all the more urgent to change our relationships and ourselves on the way there - so that isolation in supposed sovereignty becomes collective freedom in solidarity and interdependence.
This path requires patience, imagination, a fighting spirit, collectivity and the willingness for revolutionary change. In the history of the left, there have been and still are many defeats and wrong turns. The left experienced withdrawal and cynicism, treason and counter-revolution, militarization and brutal violence - from the murderous state bureaucracy of Stalin to the reformist containment of social democratic and green parties. We are aware of the historic failures of the left. Yet we are determined to learn from them and do things differently and better.