There is truth in this, then again, 'real existing Socialism' generated its own demise in the form of a nomenclatura wanting to sustain its control over (at least part of) the means of production by going capitalist. In other words, 'real existing Socialism' not only has a checkered record, but doesn't look like a recipe for the future -- in that, the various stripes and schools of Western Eurocommunists might be closer.
Back to the Left Party's Kommunistische Plattform, I may agree with JD if he means stuff like wanting to whitewash Egon Krenz or the Berlin Wall. Then again, when Sahra says f.e. that she is against a blanket memorial for "victims of Stalinism" because such general language include fascists, I tend to agree that she has a point, and it does matter to debate history. But, yet again, there is too much looking backward - if you want to save communism as a progressive ideology, stop that. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
That is exactly what I mean. For example, Herr Röllig who gives tours at a former Stasi prison in Berlin:
"Röllig said the Left Party, which emerged from the communist party that ruled East Germany to become a major electoral force in both eastern and western Germany, even sharing power in the city-state government of Berlin, has been propagating a warped view of the past. Left Party officials including Bodo Ramelow, the regional party leader in the eastern state of Thuringia, are on record denying that East Germany was an "unjust state.""
That was from a Big Orange diary on torture that I wrote, maybe I should repost it here.
In anycase, these sentiments are not condusive to growing the party, in my humble opinion. "Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"
