As much as i hate the current government (centrist conservative almost fascists, neoliberal progressives, and socialdemocrats resting on their status as a ‘big’ party)
This statement is important. Many here in Austria speak of abandoning neutrality and joinng NATO. Because of percieved threats and the problem (contradiction?) of staying neutral and still being member of the EU.
In a thread concerning the EU elections I asked a similar thing https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4768070/4417708
Ah yes, i know the KPÖ. They are “eurocommunists”. They associate with the “Party of the European Left” at the EU level. This puts them firmly in the camp of pro-EU social democrats. They are fully on board the anti-Russia bandwagon on the Ukraine issue.
They have made a conscious choice to fall in line. That is the price many of these kinds of parties believe they have to pay in order to be allowed a seat at the table. They do what they think they have to do in order to be allowed to acquire political power in the bourgeois system.
The communist party here got pressured since the death of Stalin to distance from him or the comminust politics of the USSR. Nowadays most Austrians think communism is something evil, as in every aspect of it, but mostly Stalinism. Over time and with pressure from mainstream opinion they alligned with the burguois parties in most aspects. The KPÖ are now more right leaning than the social democrats of austria 50 years ago, while those (SPÖ) decided to get even more conservative and corrupt.
It actually looks like a textbook example of moving the overton window.
Hans guck in die Luft was saved by dockworkers, and it was the Daumenlutscher with the cut off fingers.
Grimm Brothers were also German and the collected the most famous stories (Snowwhite, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, …). In the original they were way more brutal too.
I’d change the meme to “… but written by Europeans.”