How do you say: "Freundschaft, Genossen!" in English?

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I realized that there is one use of "Freund" that does not indicate a lot of closeness:

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '11 at 11:51

The British trade union movement and the political left in general tend to use brothers and sisters instead of comrades. I think the expression

Solidarity, brothers and sisters!

would match their idiom and the original sentiment reasonably closely.

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 06 '11 at 10:09

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"Freundschaft!" ("Friendship") is — as far as I know — a form of salutation still common among Austrian Socialists/Social Democrats.

I don't think there is an appropriate English translation. I've seen this on the Internet while doing some research:

With socialist greetings,

edited Jun 06 '11 at 10:09

RegDwight

answered Jun 06 '11 at 09:51

splattne

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 17 '20 at 08:52

In politics there are mainly two terms to address members of the own party:

Parteifreunde = used in more conservative parties

Genossen = used in the more left-wing oriented or socialist parties (e.g. SPD, PDS)

The term in quesition would only be used in the context of a left-wing oriented or socialist party setting. Literally it would translate with

Friendship, comrades!

but this expression seems not to be used as a socialist greeting in English.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 06 '11 at 09:53

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I'd translate it with

Friendship, comrades!

answered Jun 06 '11 at 09:53

Ben Weiss

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '19 at 14:15

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In my experience in American left organizations, the proper greeting would be "Good day Comrades, Sisters and Brothers" or thereabout...

answered Aug 19 '19 at 14:15

Kurt Hill

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Welcome to German.SE. Beside the fact that this old question should have been moved to another SE-site, regarding your answer content: any (written) source with examples? – Shegit Brahm Aug 19 '19 at 15:13

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