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Chartbook 474: The state is the problem - the AfD’s anti-systemic diagnosis of contemporary Germany.

Adam Tooze · 11 Sept 2026

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  1. Rather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.
  2. Germany is in trouble. But the trouble goes deep and cannot be addressed by "more of the same" socio-economic measures in the domain of taxes or social spending or regulation.

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