[Marxism] Dividing Germany again? (was: Karl Marx pilgrims lead communists back)

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

.    On  21.11.04
  wrote  Octob1917@xxxxxxx
     on  /ALIST/MARXMAIL
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  about  [Marxism] Karl Marx pilgrims lead communists back from oblivion


  on the effort for a FDJ revival in Germany:

O> Now the party estimates it has about 150 fully paid-up members and
O> claims they are again on the march, with branches in Bremen,
O> Frankfurt, and Munich,  in  addition to its groups in the
O> traditional heartland of the former East Germany.

   The traditional heartland for this "FDJ" is Munich, in Bavaria,  
i.e. West Germany, as the youth branch of the so-called "Arbeiterbund  
für den Wiederaufbau der KPD" or "Workers League for the  
reconstruction of the KPD", a stalinist group which had emerged in the  
early 1970ies out of the radical students movement.

   This group had styled itself according to the line of the SED/KPD  
of the early 1950ies, even picking up the nationalist stance the  
German stalinists had trying to forge a "national front" against  
colonization of West Germany by the US-imnperialists together with  
rightist former Wehrmacht officers and the like.

   Nowadays they excell in identifying the enemy at home, which is  
honorable compared to other leftist groups, but they go to strange  
extremes when they claim that the war against Jugoslavia over Kosovo  
was actually initiated by German imoerialism which manipulated the USA  
into taking part in that attack.

   It is very good, that this Arbeiterbund and its FDJ are supporting  
and defending Cuba, and did a lot to mobilize for the World Youth  
Festival there some years ago, but they also were really disappointed  
that everybody could take part in that festival as opposed to former  
occurences of the same where the participants were carefully screened  
by some organizing committee, keeping out the politically deviants.

   They don't see all the contradictions in the demise of the  
stalinist burocratic rule in the GDR and the reunification, claiming  
the the GDR was overrun by a West German offensive, ignoring that the  
Berlin Wall was not crushed by a tank attack from the West, but opened  
by a mass mobilization from the East; that the tearing down of the  
border and the reunification was a necessary historical progress, even  
if the capitalist and their state maintained the upper hand in the  
unified state.

   The way forward in Germany is not a restoration of the GDR and the  
renewed division of the country, but building a fighting unity for  
workers interests in _all_ parts of the country.

   I see this Arbeiterbund and its FDJ as being rather an obstacle to  
such progress.


Yours,
Lüko Willms                                     http://www.mlwerke.de
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