Germany’s association of family-owned companies has lifted its ban on contacts with AfD lawmakers, signalling the far-right party’s growing acceptability in parts of the business community as it climbs in the polls.
More interesting imho is that Deutsche Bank cancelled them for it:
On Monday, Deutsche Bank cancelled its existing rental agreement with the Family Business Association following the news of the AfD being present at events being organised in their facilities, as reported by several news outlets including the Handelsblatt.
fun fact: That assosicatin contains mostly big enterprises, not mom-and-pop stores.
more like a not so fun fact.
Yes, one has to think of family-owned businesses like Walmart, Ford, Koch Industries, etc.
As it was funded in 1949, it would probably be interesting on what its members have been up to, say, 5 to 15 years before.
TIL about Ford. I mean, I knew about Henry, but not that they’re still around being rich.
I.G. Farben
Uhhhh… What? What’s going on over there Germany
Faschism is back and big companies (that assosication has nothing to do with small buissnesses it’s about the very big cooperations, they just use that name to manipulate) are all in again, like back in 1933.
Not much, just trying to repeat history before the 100th anniversary…
What’s going on is the usual framing bordering on lies in the media trying hard to normalise the far-right (totally not connected who owns the media of course *wink wink*)…
What they call “family-business” here maybe -technically correct- owned by private families. But we are actually talking about the same multi-billion € companies that already got rich through the nazis back then.
It’s like writing “up-and-coming tech start-ups praise Trump policies” but talking about Tesla and Meta.
So in reality it’s “ultra-rich think they can benefit from fascists as they always do”. But that headline would not fit the agenda.
To be fair to the media here: they didn’t invent the name, the association itself is called “Verband der Familienunternehmen”. So they’re the ones doing the framing. However, Reuters COULD translate it with capital initials, “Association of Family-Owned Businesses” or something, to show that it’s a name.
That would be minimum for a short note.
Which this isn’t, so they could do this thing called … you know … journalism.
This outdated stuff where they actually inform people about details like that association being a neo-liberal lobbyism organisation representing about 0.2% of German family businesses. With such “family businesses” as Miele, Dr.Oetker or Henkel (~5, 4 and 21 billion revenue/year).
Conservatives showing their true self
ConservativesCapitalists showing their true selfFTFY
With the Nazis in Power there will be even more ways to dis-empower the working force. Just like the last time.
