tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31631611.post115859400884214551..comments2023-11-02T09:35:16.174+00:00Comments on La Femme Contraire: Bad Kittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15826777782422384955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31631611.post-1158844216768581142006-09-21T14:10:00.000+01:002006-09-21T14:10:00.000+01:00I can't link to it as you have to subscribe - but ...I can't link to it as you have to subscribe - but there was an article in Morning Star the other day very critical of the PDS and it's compromise with power.Bad Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826777782422384955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31631611.post-1158694925698575732006-09-19T20:42:00.000+01:002006-09-19T20:42:00.000+01:00BTW - I think that WSWS article is bollox !BTW - I think that WSWS article is bollox !ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31631611.post-1158694808496610872006-09-19T20:40:00.000+01:002006-09-19T20:40:00.000+01:00I'm not at all sure of your charaterisation of the...I'm not at all sure of your charaterisation of the PDS.<BR/><BR/>The membership of the SED was around 2 million, and in a one party state a lot of people who want to get things doene join the party. Also the DDR was a contradictory place, and it did have excellent health care, cheap housing, comprehensive education, full employment.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, with the collapse of the DDR, only a fraction of the SED have joined the PDS (some 68000), and this seems to be a horizontal split - with many of the lower level activists joining the PDS. While some former nomenklatura have even joined the CDU. <BR/><BR/>PDS leader Gysi was a former dissident in the DDR, and the PDS member sof parliamnt have been consistently excellent.<BR/><BR/>I think you need to recognise that the PDS has become a left social democratic party, and its links to the old SED are very limited.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.com