Today marks the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the East German uprising of 1953. It was the first of … Continue reading “What Bertolt Brecht had in common with today’s Millennial Socialists”

Dr Rainer Zitelmann’s book The Power of Capitalism could just as well have been titled “The Free Market’s Forgotten Success … Continue reading “Book review: “The Power of Capitalism” by Rainer Zitelmann (Part 1)”

A natural experiment The division of Germany into a socialist and an at least vaguely capitalist part was one of … Continue reading “Seumas Milne on East Germany: Historical revisionism at its worst”

I’ve got an idea for an alternative history novel, an alternate timeline in which the fall of the Berlin Wall … Continue reading “An alternative history: what ‘democratic socialism’ would have looked like”

This Sunday will be the 19th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – one of the greatest victories … Continue reading “Nineteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism is thriving in East Germany”