{"id":691,"date":"2026-01-16T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/?p=691"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:39:14","slug":"ja-ich-bin-linkspartei-mitglied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/ja-ich-bin-linkspartei-mitglied\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I am a member of the Left Party."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, I am a member of the Left Party.<br>And I will remain one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not as provocation.\nNot as a gag.\nNot as a side note.<br>But as a fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because this story is not an \u201canecdote from the old days,\u201d\nbut an example of how parties work\nwhen a person doesn\u2019t fit their desired image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Die vollst\u00e4ndige Darstellung inklusive Videostatement habe ich separat ver\u00f6ffentlicht:<\/strong><br>\ud83d\udc49 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/video\/ja-ich-bin-linkspartei-mitglied-videostatement\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/video\/ja-ich-bin-linkspartei-mitglied-videostatement\/\">Ja, ich bin Linkspartei-Mitglied \u2013 Videostatement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The trigger: 2017, an Endgame demonstration \u2014 and suddenly the line starts burning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people know a video of mine from <strong>2017<\/strong>, recorded at an <strong>Endgame-Demonstration<\/strong>.<br>Opposite us stood counter-demonstrators \u2014 including people from <strong>DIE LINKE<\/strong> The Left Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back then, for many, the roles were very simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the ones.<br>There are the others.<br>And everyone please stay in the box you were put in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only: that didn\u2019t fit me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because what most people didn\u2019t know back then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At that point, I had already been a <strong>for about ten months<\/strong> Member of the Leftwing-Party <strong>and specifically in the district association of Northern Saxony.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that\u2019s exactly how I introduced myself:<br>As a party member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not as an opponent.<br>Not as an enemy image.<br>Not as someone who only shows up somewhere because of prejudice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as someone who is politically organized, who forms their own view \u2014\nand who stands on the side of the peace activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And from that moment on, something happened that doesn\u2019t surprise me to this day,\nbut keeps getting confirmed again and again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suddenly, the red phones started ringing off the hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The party\u2019s panic question: \u201cSo where exactly is Liebich a member?\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From that moment on, it was no longer about content.<br>No longer about arguments.<br>No longer about what was actually being discussed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was only about one thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cWhere exactly is Mrs. Liebich a member?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer was clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udccd In Northern Saxony. <strong>In Nordsachsen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that, apparently, was the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because from that point on, the pressure came \u2014 not from the base, not from ordinary members, but from the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In essence, it sounded like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>That can\u2019t be.\nLiebich can\u2019t be a member with us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When the facts don\u2019t fit, there is no debate \u2014 then it gets \u201csolved.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They could have criticized me.<br>They could have initiated a formal procedure.<br>They could have taken the legal route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, it was \u201csolved\u201d differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the trick was as simple as it was bold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They simply claimed I wasn\u2019t a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or they said I had \u201cat some point\u201d declared my resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is the point where politics turns into pure power technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not how membership works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I paid two years in advance \u2014 in cash<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What many people don\u2019t know \u2014 and what makes this whole story so clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I paid my membership fees <strong>for two years in advance.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I paid <strong>in cash.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That payment was later transferred <strong>back to me by the party.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And only <strong>after that<\/strong> did they start claiming I was \u201cno longer a member.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when the press asked questions, they invented the next legend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They allegedly \u201cfound out\u201d I wasn\u2019t a member <strong>because I had not paid<\/strong> any fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not just wrong.<br>It is a retroactive construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the reality is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I paid.<br>I even paid in advance.<br>And the party actively transferred the money back \u2014 and then acted as if that settled everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that\u2019s not how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Membership does not end through a refund or a \u201cretroactive decision\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then came the next claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They supposedly \u201cdetermined\u201d my resignation afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is nonsense, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a political party, there are only a few clear ways a membership ends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2705 <strong>Resignation<\/strong><br>\u26b0\ufe0f <strong>Death<\/strong><br>\ud83d\udeab <strong>Expulsion proceedings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything else is just talk.<br>A membership does not end because someone internally wants it to end.<br>Or because someone \u201chigher up\u201d applies pressure.<br>Or because it fits the media narrative better to say: \u201cShe doesn\u2019t belong there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And even if payments had been overdue: Then the party would have had to issue a reminder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if you pretended contributions hadn\u2019t been paid \u2014 which they had \u2014 one basic principle still applies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If membership fees are overdue, the party is obligated to <strong>send a reminder.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No reminder.<br>No deadline.<br>No proper procedure.<br>No clarification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, there was a refund \u2014 and then the claim that I was \u201cno longer a member\u201d because supposedly no fee had been paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s not just politically dubious \u2014 it\u2019s organizationally simply unprofessional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why there is still no expulsion procedure to this day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A formal party expulsion procedure would be the clean way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that\u2019s exactly the path they\u2019re not taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the reason is obvious:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If they started an expulsion procedure, they would have to admit that I am a member.<br>Then they would have to explain why they claimed something different for years.<br>Then they would have to correct their own story \u2014 to the public, to party officials, and to elected representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that\u2019s exactly what they don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because then they would have to admit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They didn\u2019t just work against me.<br>They also lied to their own party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not even because of a political dispute \u2014 but because they wanted to \u201cget rid of\u201d someone who didn\u2019t fit the desired narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The point is: I was accepted as a member \u2014 and once it\u2019s valid, it\u2019s valid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that\u2019s why the truth is as simple as it is uncomfortable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was accepted as a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And once something is valid, it is valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can\u2019t \u201cphone away\u201d a membership.<br>You can\u2019t simply claim it away.<br>You can\u2019t erase it retroactively just because it\u2019s embarrassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a membership is meant to end, there are rules.<br>And those rules don\u2019t only apply when they\u2019re convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yes: I\u2019m a member of the Left Party. And I remain one \u2014 honorary member.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why I\u2019m saying it as clearly as the party itself never has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a member of the Left Party.<br>And I remain one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So to speak: <strong>an honorary member.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether it suits them or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because when a party tries to replace reality with mere claims,\nthen this is not just a personal issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It reveals how politics in Germany often works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not through truth,<br>but through control.<br>Not through procedure,<br>but through pressure.<br>Not through rules,<br>but through whatever story they want to tell \u201cto the outside world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is exactly why this story belongs in the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the truth doesn\u2019t disappear\njust because it makes someone inside the apparatus uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/my.shirtzshop.de\/eure-ganze-rinks-lechts-scheisse-dient-nur-dazu-unser-volk-zu-spalten\/11945\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/my.shirtzshop.de\/eure-ganze-rinks-lechts-scheisse-dient-nur-dazu-unser-volk-zu-spalten\/11945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shirts und Stickers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.shirtzshop.de\/eure-ganze-rinks-lechts-scheisse-dient-nur-dazu-unser-volk-zu-spalten\/11945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"1589\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/ja-ich-bin-linkspartei-mitglied\/image-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png\" data-orig-size=\"200,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png\" src=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png 200w, https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-in-marla-we-trust-marlas-army wp-block-embed-in-marla-we-trust-marlas-army\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"v6EbPa0BAl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/exil-aus-politischen-grunden\/\">Exile for political reasons<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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If you buy through them, you support Marlas Army at no extra cost to you.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcd8 <strong>Deutschland schafft sich ab: Die Bilanz nach 15 Jahren<\/strong> \u2013 Thilo Sarrazin \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4qgeWdj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/amzn.to\/4qgeWdj<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"marlas-author-box\">\n  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/marla-svenja-liebich\/\">Marla Svenja Liebich<\/a><\/strong>\n  is the author and publisher of <strong>Marlas Army<\/strong>.<br>\n  On Marla\u2019s Army, she publishes analyses, commentary, and personal accounts on social and political developments in Germany.\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja. Ich bin Mitglied der Linkspartei.Und ich bleibe es auch. Nicht als Provokation. Nicht als Gag. Nicht als Nebensatz.Sondern als Fakt. Denn diese Geschichte ist keine \u201eAnekdote aus alten Zeiten\u201c, sondern ein Beispiel daf\u00fcr, wie Parteien funktionieren, wenn ein Mensch nicht in ihr gew\u00fcnschtes Bild passt. Die vollst\u00e4ndige Darstellung inklusive Videostatement habe ich separat ver\u00f6ffentlicht:\ud83d\udc49 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,36],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marlas-leben","tag-linkspartei","tag-marla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/linke-juedin.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}