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The wall was a response to imperialist provocation.... and a very poor one at
that. It was a bureaucratic, cruel, and barbarous response. It did not
safeguard socialism in the short on long term, it instead divided working class
families, split the potential power of a united working class in Germany, and
safeguarded the narrow Stalinist interests of the SED.
Gay people may have had more "on paper" legal rights in East Berlin, but the
cultural explosion of the gay scene in West Berlin was far more inspiring and
compelling than any anemic gay scene in East Berlin.
As for the "picket line means do not cross" lingo....it's a pathetic attempt to
give a working class fig-leaf to a monstrosity that the East German working
class hated. The main danger to East German socialism was not in West Germany,
but in the wretched police government of the SED.
Adam Richmond
Ex neo-marcyite
SF, CA
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