Bottom line, a 1935 poem cannot be about what happened from 1936 to 1938. Yet Gandall cannot give up his effort to use Brecht's poem for his own anti-communism. Now he says, "if and when he broke with Stalin, it would more likely have been over the suppression of the East German workers' protests in 1953." Since the strike began on June 16 and Stalin died on March 5, we have another time-trick from Gandall.
Brecht had a bitter criticism of the east German government in June 1953. That is not automatic anti-communism. But Trotsky---s cannot allow that one can support an existing socialist society while recognizing that it is not perfect. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40981): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40981 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118178757/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
