[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise]

[Russell Grinker]

I never denied that workers workers suffered as a result of reunification.
As a result of the implosion of Stalinism, workers right across the former
Soviet bloc did too. However it seems to me that what you're trying to do
here is retrospectively justify the former system by arguing for how
wonderful *some* of its characteristics were. So apparently the problem
wasn't with the system itself but rather with the way it was wound up: if
only the 'destalinisation' process had preserved the revolutionary kernel of
this wonderful system, German workers would be OK today. 

-----Original Message-----
From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On Behalf Of Dmytri Kleiner

If you are unwilling to accept information from those of us who are 
actually here and contribute no more than out of hand dismissals, then I 
guess AN was correct in that you are not interested in a serious 
conversation.

East Berlin, BTW, is now the Baby-capital of Europe, a major 
contributing factor to this is the large Childcare infrastructure left 
over from the DDR. I have no doubt you will refuse to know this fact too 
and mumble something about a lack of an anti-reunification kindergarten 
uprising disproving this.