Comments on: The Western Left Misses the Old Communist East Germany

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:55:57 +0000

Does the fact that the GDR had some progressive benefits that would make sense in a market based society somehow make you uncomfortable? Because the Right seems to see everything as all-or-nothing and these points are swept off the table because of the narrow-mindedness of idealogues.
Perhaps you could benefit from some classes in Heuristics and Reasoning?

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:00:38 +0000

I believe it was John Derbyshire who noted that whenever a totalitarian boot was smashing a human face, there would be a well heeled Western leftist to point out that the face at least had health care and a 100% literacy rate.

It’s basically the “made the trains run on time” argument. It’s not only fallacious, but grossly insulting in its trivial dismissal of bleak and continuous suffering.

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By: Lili von Shtupp

Lili von Shtupp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:15:46 +0000

Well, yeah, all those commie paradises were wonderful…..as long as you didn’t have to live there, or could leave any time you wanted, or had access to hard currency…..

Especially Cuba. It is warm and has hot chicks. (Oh, sorry, they all went there for the fabulous revolutionary slogans and free health care. Yeah…)

By: Marie Claude

Marie Claude — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:17 +0000

if you remember the last anniversary fest of DDR before that the Berlin wall broke down, when Gorbachev and his spouse were invited, and that they didn’t praise the DDR government, you couldn’t miss that these parades look like the Nazy Parades

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By: Bleepless

Bleepless — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:40:00 +0000

No surprises. A few months after the Berlin Wall went up, “The Nation” (where else?) had a piece about how the Wall was leading to a nascent DDR patriotism. Riiiiight.

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By: westerncanadian

westerncanadian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:41 +0000

“… Slavoj Zizek, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London.”

I bleed for old Slavoj suffering untold iniquities in some well paid social “science” talking shop? These English people are stuffing money down his throat! He no doubt, is forced to endure fancy hotels at conferences. He is condemned to choosing his vacation spots anywhere in the world. Stop! stop this injustice! Save this victim of the Berlin Wall’s destruction and let him escape to a totalitarian country where he can be happy.

Blow it out your ear comrade.

By: Elize Nayden

Elize Nayden — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:33 +0000

@RKV: I dont think you have to lecture the Chancelor, who is the most pro-American Chancelor Germany had since Ludwig Erhard, on the role of the US and to a lesser extent the Brits (who opposed the reunification actively) had in German reunification. She was talking about the civil uprising of her fellow Germans that brought down the wall at that point despite of the fear of russian tanks intervening. She never forgets to mention Germanies allies. Concerning ideologies u only focus on the worst possible side and dont consider people like Friedrich van Hayek and Leo Strauss who contributed greately to American Conservatism. Speaking about a lack of grace…