{"id":23063,"date":"2026-09-13T20:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23063"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:37","slug":"adam-tooze-on-germanys-far-right-afd-party-plus-eric-hobsbawm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23063","title":{"rendered":"Adam Tooze on Germany&#8217;s Far-Right AfD Party (Plus: Eric Hobsbawm)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we talk about parts of Germany being &#8220;left behind&#8221;, we are talking about first-world problems. These areas are still wealthy by world and historical standards. But, their wealth and economic growth is smaller than the big cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adam Tooze on Germany&amp;apos;s Far-Right AfD Party (Plus: Eric Hobsbawm) | Ones and Tooze Ep. 259\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DoQgoV-T8wM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we talk about parts of Germany being &#8220;left behind&#8221;, we are talking about first-world problems. These areas are still wealthy by world and historical standards. But, their wealth and economic growth is smaller than the big cities. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DoQgoV-T8wM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,728,727,366,363,570,131,1268,509,1146,1277],"class_list":["post-23063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-income","tag-inequality","tag-parties","tag-party","tag-political-parties","tag-politics","tag-right-wing","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23064,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063\/revisions\/23064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}