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Nestor Gorojovsky ([email protected]) wrote on 2009-11-24 at 15:19:06 in about Re: [Marxism] Another side of the Berlin Wall: > > > It was not a wall erected to protect the workers. OK. Without reserve. > But those who tore it down were absolutely decided to turn the workers, > particularly the workers in Eastern Germany, into shit. Dear Nestor, here I have to disagree with you. The Wall was torn down by workers from East Berlin, not by the tanks of the US, British and French military stationed in West Berlin, nor by the armored cars of the West Berlin police or by the Bundeswehr of the FRG. The people of the GDR had not been "decided to turn the workers into shit", but they had not the understanding of the actual situation, and left the power to the German bourgeoisie. They had illusions, and most were baffled later to find out what had really happened to them. I remember those workers from a factory in Leipzig which I met at one of those "Monday demonstrations": they were eager to get a capitalist from West Germany as a new boss, because they hoped that this would improve their situation, and bring them the same material advantages which they saw, or thought to see, at their class comrades or personal relatives in the West. The fact is, that four decades of stalinist burocratic rule had managed to eradicate class consciousness in the working class. It will still take some time, before a new beginning can be made on a mass scale. But, OK, we know that the only stable element is that there can be big surprises at every moment, and that history can move faster than we ever thought at the least expected moments. Saludos revolucionarios, Lüko Willms Frankfurt, Germany -------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
