I finally got around to reading your winter issue. While much of it was appropriately bleak given the current political climate, I appreciated “Die Linke’s Missing Link.”

The article’s argument — that Die Linke’s decline could only be reversed by foregrounding the economic concerns of everyday people — sounds like common sense but was an important intervention.

It’s worth noting that this perspective aligns with the strategy championed by former Jacobin Germany editor Ines Schwerdtner, now coleader of Die Linke. The shift toward emphasizing core economic issues seems to have been vindicated by the party’s remarkable recovery in February’s election.