According to many polls, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is currently the strongest party in Germany. But where does it stand economically? Alice Weidel, co-chair of the AfD, presented her party as “libertarian” in a chat with Elon Musk. But strong forces within the party are strictly anti-capitalist, particularly in the AfD’s strongholds in eastern Germany.

“If we don’t vanquish the current financial capitalism, we will run this wonderful planet into the ground” – this quote comes from the Thuringian AfD leader Björn Höcke. “We are not on the side of the rich and greedy,” Höcke says in his speeches, polemicizing against those “who have a meeting in Tokyo in the morning, then arrive in Singapore to play golf in the afternoon, only to drink their latte macchiato in a deckchair on the sun terrace in St. Moritz the following evening.” The famous Thuringian AfD politician believes that “the super-rich are trying to exert informal control of the world.”

Like his party colleague Maximilian Krah, Höcke describes international investors as “locusts,” a term that originated in the left-wing discourse in Germany.

Benedikt Kaiser, the mastermind of the right-wing anti-capitalists in the AfD, published a programmatic book, “Solidary Patriotism: The Social Question from the Right.” He quotes extensive left-wing authors with approval........

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