At Stake in the German Elections

ERIK v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

It is futile to argue that the German Social Democrats (SPD) have poured so much water into their Marxist wine that only a skilled gourmet could discover the traces of the basic brew; a Socialist government, if elected to office in the September 19 West German elections, would mean quite a break with the past and so would a coalition between the Social Democrats and the Free Democratic Party (FDP). This party is the real heir of the nineteenth-century national liberals and of the Weimar Republic’s Deutsch-Volkische Partei (Strese-mann’s party). There are actually five theoretical possibilities for a new government after September 19: a Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union (CDU-CSU) absolute majority; a Socialist absolute majority; a coalition government of the CDU-CSU and the FDP (the ruling alliance today); a coalition government made up of the SPD and the FDP (which the latter party has rejected in advance), and, finally, a coalition between the Bigs—the CDU and the SPD.

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ERIK v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

It is futile to argue that the German Social Democrats (SPD) have poured so much water into their Marxist wine that only a skilled gourmet could discover the traces of the basic brew; a Socialist government, if elected to office in the September 19 West German elections, would mean quite a break with the past and so would a coalition between the Social Democrats and the Free Democratic Party (FDP). This party is the real heir of the nineteenth-century national liberals and of the Weimar Republic’s Deutsch-Volkische Partei (Strese-mann’s party). There are actually five theoretical possibilities for a new government after September 19: a Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union (CDU-CSU) absolute majority; a Socialist absolute majority; a coalition government of the CDU-CSU and the FDP (the ruling alliance today); a coalition government made up of the SPD and the FDP (which the latter party has rejected in advance), and, finally, a coalition between the Bigs—the CDU and the SPD.