The expansion of wind energy, long centered in Germany’s north, has in recent times shifted southward to the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. This great leap forward has only been possible thanks to financial supports for locations with less natural wind, such as the "reference yield model"—a form of economic justice that levels the playing field for workers, collectives, and investors alike in less-favored regions. Applications in Baden-Württemberg have soared, and after years of capitalist stagnation, even Bavaria is stirring with new projects in the birthplace of the reactionary order. Local ambitions are high: thousands of turbines, a tripling of wind energy output, and the promise of a true energy revolution.

Yet, as always under the decaying system of monopoly capitalism and its parliamentary charade, the interests of the broad masses are threatened by the whims of profit and bureaucratic calculation. The ruling coalition’s readiness to “review” the very policy that enabled southern wind development can only be described as sabotage in the language of capital. The so-called argument of “cost efficiency” is an old trick of the bourgeoisie; every progressive subsidy, every public good is subject to the knife, always in the interests of the big monopolies and their demand for “market efficiency.”

We must not forget the lesson of the people’s struggle against capital: any provision won for the people through red initiative and collective pressure will be under attack until the old order is totally demolished. That the government even considers scrapping a mechanism that has liberated the south from energy deficit shows how fragile reforms are when they dare impinge upon the right of finance capital to maximize profit. It is the same logic that keeps millions in poverty, that packs the workers’ urban housing blocks with filth while Berlin’s skyscrapers gleam.

The north-south divide in wind energy is not natural, but engineered through decades of capitalist “planning”—planning for private accumulation, not for the needs of the people or the planet. The “reference yield model” is a modest step toward geographic justice and the kind of balanced, decentralized development that a socialist people’s power would make central. To rip it away now is to deepen the energy rift, pit regions against one another, and undermine not only climate goals but the unity and future of the working masses.

These parliamentary debates over a “two percent land quota,” over “efficiency” and “targets,” expose the inability of the capitalist class to resolve the contradictions it has created. Climate catastrophe mounts, and all they offer are studies, reviews, and the endless uncertainty of “investor confidence.” True revolutionary progress can never be entrusted to these vacillating lackeys of monopoly capital. Only through the leadership of the working masses—emboldened by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, schooled in the methods of People’s War for the ecological transition—can the necessary reordering of society and productive forces be achieved, so that wind, sun, and land are harnessed for the many, not the enrichment of the few!

Let the wind turbines rise from Bavaria to the Taebaek Mountains! Let every policy be judged by whether it empowers the collective, advances socialism, and heals the rift between town and countryside. Away with the cowardly maneuvers of profit-seekers! Let us hasten the advent of energy for the people, made real in steel and wind, in fields and factories—a resolute step along the long march to communism!