Re: [Marxism] Re: German left unity endangered

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:43:24 -0800 (PST), Nigel Irritable wrote:

> The way of this impasse is for the PDS to agree to
> stay out of any state government which plans to impose
> an austerity programme of cuts. The PDS leadership
> won't do that however.

  On the contrary, they are dreaming of entering a "left" coalition
government which would be, of course, a capitalist government, just as
they already do in the federal states of Berlin and
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

> the situation in Germany which involves
> real social forces and parties with a semi-mass
> membership and support.

   But one should remember that the 10'000 members of Linkspartei.PDS in
Berlin (which are being compared to the 800 members of WASG there) are
in large part the remnants of the old GDR state burocracy.

Yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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