Re: [Marxism] Re: Hungary 1956 (GDR as state caps)

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Len Walsingham wrote:
> Even under hostile takeovers the most of the management, below board
> level, would usually remain. But what this is is the concept of the GDR
> as a 'state caps' society -- Chris Harman's, editor of Socialist Worker,
> so-called 'sideways move'.
Actually most of teh lower levels of teh civil service and many of teh
lower managers in those enterprises that survived remained after the
West German takeover.

> This 'theory' explains nothing; bypasses some of the great events and
> conflicts of the 20th century and is believed by no one outside of the
> SWP. But then, to some, the SWP is life, the universe and everything.
Yopu're entitled to your opinion, however living in east Germany as I do
I find that the analogy is helpful and is shared (or at least
understood) by quite a few of the former GDR oppositionists I work with.

Einde O'Callaghan


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