Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Pawel Moscicki: Although after the collapse of the USSR it was decreed that class struggle no longer existed and did not describe any reality, it did not end. Only Capital is winning this battle so decisively that the struggle itself … Weiterlesen →

The Platz was pretty high energy, full of defiant kids. Those of us older than 30 being represented by an Aufstehen group is amusingly appropriate. The aufstehen-berlin.com – note the „.com“ 🙂 site is really worth a look. It recounts … Weiterlesen →

Homo homini lupus est, as one inspired Latin saying has it. But man has long ceased being a wolf to man. Man is not even an image-maker to man, as some modern sociologists assume. It is all far more terrifying … Weiterlesen →

Averell Harriman, the US ambassador to the Soviet Union during the Second World War, said Tolstoy once told him that to understand Stalin’s Kremlin you had to understand Ivan’s reign. Harriman clarified that Tolstoy did not mean Stalin was like … Weiterlesen →

Hanging above the counter was a black tee shirt with a portrait of Che Guevara and the inscription: ‚Rage Against the Machine‘. On the piece of cardboard under the tee shirt it said: ‚Bestseller of the month!‘ There was nothing … Weiterlesen →

Marta Kubišová, November 1989

Eternity was contingent: if, say, Stalin had not killed Trotsky, but the other way round, then it would have been populated by entirely different individuals. … Tatarsky, of course, hated most of the manifestations of Soviet power, but he still … Weiterlesen →