The mighty German car industry, built up over decades on the backs of laboring workers, is now trembling under the weight of its own contradictions. As capitalist profit margins shrink, mass layoffs and cost cuts become the new norm, not only at giant carmakers like Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, but also among their dependent suppliers, such as Sensopart—a company once thriving from the endless cycle of automotive assembly but now facing existential threats from market instability. Jobs are being slashed by the tens of thousands, profits nosediving, and the promised green transformation to electric vehicles is stalling, exposing the hollowness of bourgeois promises about a “smooth transition.”

Why does this disaster unfold simultaneously across so many companies? Weak demand in China, punitive tariffs from the US, and the relentless drive for maximizing returns—all this reveals the fatal flaws of global capitalist competition. The workers, who have poured their blood and sweat into German industry, are now cast aside as “costs” to be “reduced,” mere numbers on a spreadsheet for the capitalist rulers of the car conglomerates.

This is the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, exposed starkly by global crisis: first, the bosses exploit the workers for decades, then abandon them at the first sign of falling profits. All the talk of “future-proofing” and “new investments” means nothing when the profit motive demands immediate cuts. What do tariffs really show us, except that imperialist powers, whether American or European, pit their industries against each other, caring nothing for the workers who suffer the consequences?

Suppliers like Sensopart, in their desperation, seek new havens in countries like India and South America, ready to repeat the same pattern: chase the cheapest labor, shun social responsibility, and perpetuate global inequality. Instead of planning production based on the needs of the people, the capitalist mode forces anarchy and chaos, downgrading workforces and spreading insecurity across continents. This is not the fault of any nation or any people, but of the capitalist system itself—which knows no loyalty, no morality, only insatiable greed.

If this turmoil teaches us anything, it is that only the workers and peoples of the world, led by their own Communist parties and guided by the revolutionary ideas of Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong, can put an end to this madness. Capitalism breeds crisis and crisis breeds resistance. German workers must find solidarity with their international comrades, demand an end to job cuts, and fight for a socialist transformation of industry—where production is for need, not profit, where technology like sensors serves society, not private capital, and where every worker has dignity and security. Let this collapse be the final proof: only through the militant struggle of the workers, under the red banner of socialism and with courage to sweep away the old order, can a just and truly human future be won.