[lbo-talk] RE: trash talking the lumpenproletariat

[Richard Harris]

To let the light of facts onto some people's views on the so-called lumpen, 
I assumed Angelus Novus's posting was to introduce us to this reality in 
Western Europe, specifically NE Germany: 

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1963238.ece 

German politicians reacted with shock and outrage yesterday after right-wing 
extremists chanting "Sieg Heil" desecrated a memorial to the thousands of 
Jews whose synagogues were sacked and plundered during the Nazi's infamous 
anti-Semitic Kristallnacht pogrom in the 1930s. 

Police in Frankfurt an der Oder, on Germany's border with Poland, said a 
gang of 16 neo-Nazis aged between 16 and 24 went on the rampage at a stone 
monument marking the spot where the town's synagogue was burnt down in 1938, 
after a memorial service. 

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It's the confidence of those guys that amazes me.  And they are youths.  The 
local socialists where I am are almost a pensioners club.