Stigma wrote on 11/20/19 at 17:22:02:
MNb wrote on 11/20/19 at 16:19:06:
Stigma wrote on 11/20/19 at 14:45:40:
I think you're just being needlessly hostile here.
I don't think it needless as long as you think it possible that someone who calls himself Trotsky supports Brezhnev and Honegger; that's a strong sign of a closed mind.
This mind has forgotten most of what it once knew about the political differences between the central historical figures within Communism. But that doesn't make it "closed".
I only want to add that it's possible to take a wide variety of attitudes to the DDR. It must be possible to commemorate
some aspects of it while not necessarily supporting Brezhnev and Honegger?
I think I understand what you're thinking about the irony point, but honestly I was just trying to say he clearly appears to be somewhere on the far left politically, and for all I know he's honest about that. The blog name is one sign.
Let's take it as it is. The fall of the Berlin Walls brought "freedom" to the eastern hemisphere. But that "freedom" to many became an unreachable aspect. As in the "winner's" (i.e. capitalism) world you need money to evolve freedom.
So many (by far not everybody) had no gain but felt a loss of some sort of security and order.
Is that, was followed after the fall of the wall a better world?
I would say: it is another world with comparable problems.
Just look at the USA a country deeply devided, with lots of people suffering in ways (in concern to Living Standards) worse then in the former GDR in the early eighties (that is a matter of statistics). Just compare the care factor.
So it ist not allone the question whether the earlier times were "better".
To me the main question is, whether we can cope with the rising problems in the world.
The signs are not to good.
And the main problem is the same that allready stood at the craddle of communism: Inequality.
By the way: The GDR-guy had the name Honecker, not Honegger.