countries, we must show revolutionaries and cannot act as a brake on history.' I challenge him on some of the more controversial aspects of his insistence, for example, that there should be a one-party system. In reply, Bahro maintains his View that and that there was no justification therefore for à multitude of parties once private ownership of the means of production and thus bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie had abolished.
But there is, as it turns out, more to it than that: "If one acknowledges the reactions of the masses, in the GDR for example, who are still condemned to an unreflective life by the nature of their work processes, then it is unavoidable that there should still be a justification for saying: Here the party, there the masses.? Enlightened In other words, Bahro freely admits that he does not see the masses as capable of exercisingli power yet, and that he historical period during which an 'enlightened' elite, ourselves be book his parties represent class differences, the been cause for still there, foresees an entire 'League of LICW Hence his hope for a "guided' process, 'guided' by enlightened sectors of the bureaucracy: If the hour strikes, as in Prague 1968, if. they drop their guard for a single moment..., that opens up other possibilities. In such a situallon the emancipatory would make themselves felt right up as far as the high ranks of the apparatus.
Until that happens, fire.. out of revolutionary subjectivism and voluntarism'.
There is definitely a contrast between the revolutionary fire of The Alternative in Eastern Europe and the cautious fatalism of the author now that he has been released. ambiguities were, of course, already contained in the book - but they frequently contradicted by bold statements of tans cente disappointment: product of his background.
The enthusiastic communist and Marxist is the belief in the alternative "socialism or barbarism' unbroken. Marxism has been shaped in an environment in which the masses cannot be trusted, in which Western capitalism remains the yardstick of
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