Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa will address over 1,000 delegates from across Europe at the Libertas convention in Rome today. According to the organizers, he will talk about “freedom”. On this May Day, younger Europeans, who enjoy freedom, should raise a glass to the great Lech Walesa.
After all, it was he who founded the first independent trade union, Solidarity, within the Soviet bloc, and helped bring about the end of what Ronald Reagan so rightly termed the “evil empire”. Bear that in mind when you’re chillin’ with the neo-Marxists who now long for the good old days of warm and fuzzy “comradeship”.
You can watch the Libertas convention live here.
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hm, what’s wrong with neo-marxism?
But do you support Libertas? Or are you critical of them? If so why? That’s what we’d love to know!
What’s wrong with neo-Marxism, Tanja? Been there, done that. Knocked down the Berlin Wall, got rid of the Stasi. It was not the paradise that was promised to the workers. It was the exact opposite, in fact.
Josef, do I support Libertas? I certainly support the idea of pan-European politics and I am very much in favour of replacing as many of the current MEPs as possible. Half of them are using the Parliament as a means of padding their expenses and the other half have been put out to grass, so to speak, by their parties, who view Brussels as a kind of early retirement bonus. Out with them!
But are you sure that was Marxism? I don’t think that Marx said anything about that. Maybe it’s better to talk about certain regimes but not Marx in general. Btw, according to Marx there was no communism in EE-communism is a situation when state is not present anymore, while in fact we know that in different version in EE the state was getting stronger-a bit different in Yugoslavia which with self-managment process totally decentralized herself. This definitely needs a longer live discussion, but I was also living in a place which was considered as “a bit smaller evil” (great cooperators with everyone) and can criticize it a lot from many perspectives which are present also today. But I don’t believe that so-called imported neo-liberalism brought much more prospect. I just want to say that Marx as a theorist and his ideas had nothing to do with Stasi.
Tanja, you may be right. Perhaps there was no connection between Marx and the Stasi, but the next time you are in Berlin I’d encourage you to take a stroll down Karl Marx Allee, where you’ll might meet the ghosts of many of those who were murdered by the criminals who were intent of establishing a Marxist paradise on earth.
What had once been called Große Frankfurter Straße, was renamed named Stalinallee in 1949, but on 17 June 1953 it became the scene of a proletarian revolt against the socialist regime, leading to a uprising that was crushed with Soviet tanks and troops. Renamed Karl Marx Allee, the boulevard was famously used for East Germany’s May Day parade, featuring the military power and pomp that would guarantee 1,000 years of glorious communist prosperity. However, 50 years after being renamed Stalinallee, Karl Marx Allee became part of a reunited Berlin and the ideology that had been its inspiration was consigned to the dustbin of history.
I can totally agree about people/nomenclature/regime,…misusing the power under the Marx’s name and also condemn all the violations, murders, occupations, etc. The only thing that I don’t agree is that the mentioned derives from Marx. If I remember correctly, the concept of Dictatorship of Proletariat was invented by someone else…
But I understand your examples very well, just think that Marx in original version has nothing to do with it.
I think that the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was Lenin’s idea.
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So he belongs to the right wing warmongers?
The right claims Lech Walesa like the Christians claim Elvis Presley.
It’s ridiculous. How right wing is Lech Walesa and how christian was Elvis?
It’s as ridiculous as Marxists claiming Mahatma Ghandi and Henry David Thoreau.
It’s a mask for their ego.