> Somebody not familiar with the debates of the extra-parliamentary left in
> Germany over the last 30 years can't reasonably be expected to be
> familiar with all this, but that doesn't stop the ignorant from
> engaging in all kinds of armchair psychology about the motives of such
> discussions.
Michael Smith's original comment was a swipe at *mainstream* German politics -- its chronic inability to break free from the pet political projects of an increasingly deranged and defunct US Empire -- as opposed to anything the extra-parliamentarians have (or have not) done.
-- DRR