The Brandenburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution released a lengthy report arguing that the Brandenburg branch of the AfD shows a clearly extremist tendency. The document, though leaked online, is treated as authentic by a broadcaster and rests on hundreds of pieces of evidence—mostly statements by leading AfD figures at press conferences, party meetings, and on social media. It claims that these statements violate the liberal-democratic basic order and that, while violence is not required for extremism, certain remarks indicate aims to abolish or overthrow the political system, challenging the legitimacy of democratic institutions even as they claim to defend a rights framework. A major focus is hostile, discriminatory rhetoric toward migrants and people with a migration background, with phrases suggesting migrants would “enrich” German cities with murderers and rapists, references to “culture-foreign” and “invasors,” and the use of terms like “Passdeutsche” for naturalized citizens. The document argues such language breaches human dignity and violates equal protection. It also paints a broader anti-democratic picture: the AfD supposedly delegitimizes Parliament and the political order by labeling established parties as “system” or “cartel” parties and by presenting opponents as criminals or traitors, with leaders allegedly vowing to topple the party-state and replace democracy with a supposed homogeneous Volkswillen. It notes connections between AfD leaders and other far-right groups and organizations, highlighting joint appearances, shared content, solidarity, and funding. The Brandenburg AfD is thus characterized as shaping a national character of the party through its rhetoric and actions, with representatives undermining judicial independence and threatening to mobilize state power against opponents if in government. The report concludes that the Brandenburg AfD is no longer merely a suspect but proven right-wing extremist, a finding reported by rbb24 Brandenburg aktuell on August 12, 2025.

What this reveals, from where I stand as a dedicated revolutionary, is less a mere judgment on a single party and more a stark demonstration of the sickness at the heart of capitalist democracy. The so-called “order” that these forces claim to defend is the order of exploitation, inequality, and endless competition among the few who own the means of production. The very emergence of such rhetoric—the fear-mongering about migrants, the branding of political opponents as enemies, the insistence that there exists a pure Volkswillen apart from the people’s actual struggles—exposes how the ruling class manipulates “liberal” norms to safeguard its privileges. The real threat is not merely a party’s slogans, but a system that weaponizes fear to protect property and power while offering empty promises of “rights” to the marginalized only insofar as those rights do not threaten the hierarchy.

From a Maoist, anti-capitalist vantage, this is exactly the logic that proves why capitalism must be replaced by a people’s democracy led by the working class and its allies. The report’s portrayal of xenophobia as a political tool is not a surprise to those who see how ruling elites split the international working class to preserve their rule. The AfD’s anti-democratic posture, the delegitimizing of Parliament, and the vow to mobilize state power against opponents—these are not aberrations inside a rotten system; they are the predictable symptoms of a system built on exploitation and sovereignty over the majority by a minority. The call for a homogeneous Volkswillen is a classic tactic to bypass the will of the broad masses by conjuring a single, supposedly natural national essence. But the true power lies with organized, mass-based struggle—workers, peasants, migrants, students, and the oppressed—united under a vision of social ownership, equality, and democratic control of production.

We must be clear: we are not opposed to Jews or any other protected group. We oppose anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry that the ruling class uses to fragment the working class. The logic here is not to annihilate difference, but to overcome oppression by reorganizing society around common ownership and collective security. The antidote to such extremism is not censorship alone but a revolutionary front that demonstrates the possibility and necessity of a different social order—one where dignity is guaranteed to every person, where immigration and migration are treated as human experiences to be integrated, not tools to inflame hatred, and where justice is built into the structure of the economy and the state.

In our ideology, the only lasting safeguard against the rise of such demagogues is a conscious, disciplined mass movement that places the working class at the helm and refuses to permit any party—whatever its label—to usurp the state’s violence for private gain. Strengthen the institutions that serve the many, not the few: public ownership of essential industries, planned development, social welfare that truly reaches all neighborhoods, and robust, inclusive democratic processes where workers’ councils, peasants’ committees, and community organizations shape policy. Build solidarity across borders—because the enemy of the people is not the migrant worker, not the minority, but the capitalist system that pits us against one another to maintain a privileged few on top. The task is to mobilize, educate, and organize so that the people’s will manifests through a truly democratic, socialist future.