Re: Re: [Marxism] Jünge Welt

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

Lüko wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:45:51 -0300, Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:
>
> > Could you please give us more info on Jünge Welt?
>
>   You seem to value the paper so much, that you grant them an extra
> Umlaut (trema) ... the paper is actually called "Junge Welt", i.e. Young
> World.
>
>   "Junge Welt" used to be the daily organ of the FDJ, the GDR youth
> organisation. It is with "Neues Deutschland", the (former) organ of the
> SED, one of the only two GDR dailies to remain in stalinist hands.
>
>   While "Neues Deutschland" (ND) caters more to the high nose burocrat
> and teacher or professional, "Junge Welt" (jw) is more for the
> leather-jacket stalinist, and has won readers all among the radical
> left, also in the west. The jw-readers rather stand with Cuba, while the
> ND-readers are more prepared to take up "critisisms" of Cuba's purported
> human rights violations and declare Cuba to be a failure just as their
> own GDR had been.
>

While I agree with Lüko about the difference between ND and jw, to say jw is 
"in stalinist hands", is a simplification. Certainly members of the German CP 
(DKP) are in prominent positions at jw, but there are Trotskyists who write 
regularly for jw as well.

Generally jw critices both DKP and PDS from a left, anti-imperialist position. 
On international matters it is pretty close to the mainstream of this list, ie. 
defending Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and Yugoslavia against imperialist aggression. 
As a daily and an organisator of discussions it is indispensable for the 
radical left.

Johannes
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