Hamburg, summer 2006 - Herbert Schui (of the party "Die Linke") explains the correlation between the fact that Germany is moving production to other countries and still continues to be the world's leading exporter.

In the face of decreasing wages and increasing poverty and social segregation, capitalism does not seem useful. Despite this, or even because of this, it is a taboo to put capitalism into question.

07-15-2006, Bertelsmann-Kongress in Hamburg - Herbert Schui's answer to the question, what would be neccessary to overcome capitalism.

Since the citizen's income would cost one third of the GDP (between 600 and 800 billion Euros per year) it will be hard to push it through. If we had sufficient power to enforce the rededication of such large sums of money, we might as well use that power for a fundamental change of the whole system.

July 15, 2006 - Bertelsmann-Congress Hamburg - Herbert Schui explains his view on the demand for an unconditional basic income ("citizen's income"). He is sceptical when asked whether this concept can be implemented.