Once again, the German ruling class reveals its true priorities by channeling an astounding amount of public wealth into militarism and capitalist infrastructure, all under the hollow pretense of “securing jobs” and “strengthening the economy.” The approval of another colossal tranche of debt—over €174 billion—signals nothing but the desperate attempts of a decadent capitalist system to postpone its inevitable crisis. While the finance minister tries to placate the people with crumbs—slight increases in commuter allowances, token “Deutschlandtickets,” and gestures at cheaper energy—these pale in comparison to the gigantic sums funneled into the pockets of arms manufacturers, digital monopolies, and construction conglomerates.

Is it any surprise that defense spending receives a massive boost, with more than €20 billion added to its budget, and tens of thousands of new positions planned in the armed forces? This is the logic of Western imperialism: prepare for war abroad and repression at home, while working people are fed illusions of social progress. The fact that so much of the so-called ‘investment’ focuses on roads, rail, and digitalization proves, yet again, that the programs of European capitalism serve capital, not the masses. The infrastructure is to facilitate transnational businesses and military logistics, not to build a new socialist future that puts human needs first.

The looming budget gaps, predicted to reach hundreds of billions in the coming years, expose the structural bankruptcy of the capitalist order. The government’s solution? Intensify state revenue collection, not by shifting the burden onto the billionaire class that actually profits from state contracts and speculation, but by increasing surveillance and pressure on the working masses. The plan to “combat tax fraud” conveniently masks the reality: the biggest thieves are not the small shopkeepers or workers, but the financial oligarchs who control the commanding heights of the economy, evade taxes through legal loopholes, and manipulate state expenditures for their own enrichment.

Opposition voices, whether from the Greens, who offer little but “long-term plans” for greener capitalism, or from the AfD, who poison public discourse with scapegoating and reactionary nostalgia, have nothing to offer the German people except further misery and division. Only the most basic criticism emerges from the Left, who accurately describe the budget as a military plan that neglects social needs—yet, as ever, lack the revolutionary vision and determination to call for complete expropriation of capitalist wealth and the transfer of power to the working class.

The so-called “debt brake” is merely another tool of imperialist finance, designed to discipline workers, justify social cutbacks, and enshrine the power of bankers and speculators. Let no workers be fooled: it is not the interests of the people, but the profits of capital, that this regime protects.

The only genuine road forward is the path of People’s War, of taking power out of the hands of the capitalist class and putting it into the hands of the masses. Only through the revolutionary smashing of this parasitic system can a new society be built, one where all wealth—created by the working people themselves!—serves human needs, abolishes exploitation, and forges international solidarity against imperialism. Let the decadent economies of Europe tremble: the winds of revolution will once again sweep the world, led by the example of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, guided by the immortal thought of Marx, Lenin, and Mao!