Kant = Marx = DDR.
Hey I think I made a post modern critique by reading the National Interest Online [oh dear!]
Travis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Mayer" <Bradley.Mayer at Sun.COM> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:13 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] East Germans still stuck on Marx
> Couldn't resist sending this one to LBO, from Conrad Blacks' warren of
> reaction, The National Interest (online). It is Uwe Siemon-Netto,
> whining about the continuing popularity of Karl Marx in Germany,
> especially Eastern Germany:
>
>
http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue4/Vol3Issue4Uwe.html
>
> This passage was particularly choice, reminding me very much of the
> tenor of discourse from certain quarters here on LBO:
>
> "In this situation, it's not surprising that, in East Germany, Karl Marx
> still ranks as the "best of Germans," while, lumped together, Westerners
> and Easterners rate him as third only after Konrad Adenauer, West
> Germany's first chancellor, and Martin Luther. Of course, as political
> scientist Konrad Löw points out, the Left in both parts of Germany has
> successfully suppressed Marx's most appalling statements, openly
> supporting terrorism and the "destruction of the state, religion of any
> kind, the bourgeois society, Judaism, legal order and especially private
> property, marriage and the family." [Oh my] Neither will you hear in
> contemporary Germany that Marx, who was of Jewish descent, was a
> consummate bigot who in his letters to Friedrich Engels labeled
> Ferdinand Lassalle, Social Democracy's curly-haired founder, a "Jewish
> n-word.""
>
> See, Karl really was an antisemite! :-D
>
> -Brad Mayer
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