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	<title>Comments on: Back to Lenin? Bolshevism as Barbarism</title>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voldemort, you don&#039;t make sense half the time. Most of the left, with the exception of the religious left and followers of liberation theology, do not believe in religion as strongly as conservatives. I am an agnostic, but I don&#039;t judge people based on beliefs, unless those people are religious extremists who commit atrocities in the name of a religion, such as radical Islamists. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Voldemort, you don&#039;t make sense half the time. Most of the left, with the exception of the religious left and followers of liberation theology, do not believe in religion as strongly as conservatives. I am an agnostic, but I don&#039;t judge people based on beliefs, unless those people are religious extremists who commit atrocities in the name of a religion, such as radical Islamists. </p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, but the fact remains that left-wing anti-Americanism dates back to the French Revolution. Why did the Jacobins revolted against King Louis XVI? Unlike most of the French people (who revolted because they wanted to get rid of the monarchy), Robespierre and his Jacobin henchmen revolted because they wanted total power for themselves. The Jacobins did not care about the king&#039;s absolutism, as the Jacobins established totalitarianism in France soon after the royal family was deposed (the Jacobins initiated the Reign of Terror, which killed thousands of innocent people during the 1790s). There may be some indication that Britain&#039;s King George III may have helped to fund the Jacobins in the French Revolution because George was angry at Louis for supporting the American Revolution and the independence of the United States (King Louis XVI was an American ally). Based on this indication theory, it makes perfect sense to see and understand that left-wing anti-Americanism goes as far back as the French Revolution.The Jacobins are responsible for all of the hell that the left has caused in the world, throughout history and in the modern world. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, but the fact remains that left-wing anti-Americanism dates back to the French Revolution. Why did the Jacobins revolted against King Louis XVI? Unlike most of the French people (who revolted because they wanted to get rid of the monarchy), Robespierre and his Jacobin henchmen revolted because they wanted total power for themselves. The Jacobins did not care about the king&#039;s absolutism, as the Jacobins established totalitarianism in France soon after the royal family was deposed (the Jacobins initiated the Reign of Terror, which killed thousands of innocent people during the 1790s). There may be some indication that Britain&#039;s King George III may have helped to fund the Jacobins in the French Revolution because George was angry at Louis for supporting the American Revolution and the independence of the United States (King Louis XVI was an American ally). Based on this indication theory, it makes perfect sense to see and understand that left-wing anti-Americanism goes as far back as the French Revolution.The Jacobins are responsible for all of the hell that the left has caused in the world, throughout history and in the modern world. </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And most Jews would be ashamed to have Lenin as one of there number. The Communists ATTACKED religion in all forms,Judaism included. Many Jews emigrated to America during Lenin&#039;s lifetime and some were influenced by him. These days,most Jews would hate Lenin because of all the misery he gave their religion. In that,he was no different than Hitler. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And most Jews would be ashamed to have Lenin as one of there number. The Communists ATTACKED religion in all forms,Judaism included. Many Jews emigrated to America during Lenin&#039;s lifetime and some were influenced by him. These days,most Jews would hate Lenin because of all the misery he gave their religion. In that,he was no different than Hitler. </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did your parents have a sense of humor? You&#039;re one of those idiots who mistake circular logic for sophistication, but your IQ issurely low, you know troll. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did your parents have a sense of humor? You&#039;re one of those idiots who mistake circular logic for sophistication, but your IQ issurely low, you know troll. </p>
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		<title>By: Jacobite</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacobite]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leftists understand the suffering Leftism produces. Hey, that&#039;s why they&#039;re Leftists. Some Brit writer said: &quot;Leftism is a relentless war against everything normal.&quot; Now who wants to conduct a war against normal people? Correct -- abnormal people. Watch some tape of any Democratic Party Convention since 1972. Yep, looks like a carnival side-show train derailed someplace.  The reason US Leftists are so predictably anti-American is because most of them are either non-Americans (i.e., NW European) or non-normal Americans. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leftists understand the suffering Leftism produces. Hey, that&#039;s why they&#039;re Leftists. Some Brit writer said: &quot;Leftism is a relentless war against everything normal.&quot; Now who wants to conduct a war against normal people? Correct &#8212; abnormal people. Watch some tape of any Democratic Party Convention since 1972. Yep, looks like a carnival side-show train derailed someplace.  The reason US Leftists are so predictably anti-American is because most of them are either non-Americans (i.e., NW European) or non-normal Americans. </p>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope, God gave free will and evil flourished due to people such as yourself that reject God&#039;s values. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nope, God gave free will and evil flourished due to people such as yourself that reject God&#039;s values. </p>
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		<title>By: You Know Who</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[You Know Who]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So god had a sense of humor and starving people is funny to him. 
 
You&#039;re a sick man  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So god had a sense of humor and starving people is funny to him. </p>
<p>You&#039;re a sick man  </p>
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		<title>By: U.B Stupid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[U.B Stupid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Gor&quot; invented the ultimate global-warming scheme. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Gor&quot; invented the ultimate global-warming scheme. </p>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not really, He may have a sense of humor and wanted something to laugh at. 
As far as communists and the pain and suffering in the world.   Perhaps the devil deserves the blame.  And maybe God created us to think and act based on free will.   
 
God doesn&#039;t deserve all the blame for your stupid.  You do. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not really, He may have a sense of humor and wanted something to laugh at.<br />
As far as communists and the pain and suffering in the world.   Perhaps the devil deserves the blame.  And maybe God created us to think and act based on free will.   </p>
<p>God doesn&#039;t deserve all the blame for your stupid.  You do. </p>
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		<title>By: You Know Who</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[You Know Who]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s amazing gor would create atheists and let this sort of thing happen ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s amazing gor would create atheists and let this sort of thing happen </p>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#039;t it amazing how many starve and die in communist utopias? 
 
They must have another definition for the word they don&#039;t share with the rest of us. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#039;t it amazing how many starve and die in communist utopias? </p>
<p>They must have another definition for the word they don&#039;t share with the rest of us. </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 01:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The only thing to love about Lenin is the fact that he died from syphilis.&quot; 
 
I agree with everything else but your concluding sentence. What Lenin died of we don&#039;t know for a fact. He may have suffered from syphilis for sure, but he also was in practically air tight isolation attended by staff hand picked by Stalin for months on end. Right through the end. Felshtinsky laid out a case in that Lenin had been likely poisoned by the future NKVD chief Yagoda, who had been a chemist by trade and Stalin&#039;s henchman by occupation. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;The only thing to love about Lenin is the fact that he died from syphilis.&quot; </p>
<p>I agree with everything else but your concluding sentence. What Lenin died of we don&#039;t know for a fact. He may have suffered from syphilis for sure, but he also was in practically air tight isolation attended by staff hand picked by Stalin for months on end. Right through the end. Felshtinsky laid out a case in that Lenin had been likely poisoned by the future NKVD chief Yagoda, who had been a chemist by trade and Stalin&#039;s henchman by occupation. </p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 23:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tismaneanu is right. Leninism, Marxism, communism, socialism and all the other empty ideologies of the left are nothing but a means to power. That&#039;s all they ever were. The true believers are truly deluded. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tismaneanu is right. Leninism, Marxism, communism, socialism and all the other empty ideologies of the left are nothing but a means to power. That&#8217;s all they ever were. The true believers are truly deluded. </p>
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		<title>By: ProphetOfDoom65</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ProphetOfDoom65]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is to my great dismay that there are multitudes of people in USA and Europe who worship this criminal. I lived in that country, in the &quot;communists paradise&quot;. The shadow of Lenin&#039;s corpse was cast over 1/6 part of all the land mass of the Earth. That &quot;paradise&quot; collapsed because people from more than 100 nations living there hated the system he created. Lenin was an &quot;equal opportunity&quot; hater - starting from capitalists to Jews, to Christians, to Muslims, to tiny nations of Siberia and etc. All had been enslaved and subjected to re-education all eradication (when subjects were too stubborn). That &quot;monster of a revolutionary&quot; is the father of terrorism, disregard to human life, rejection of all international and national laws and etc. 
The only thing to love about Lenin is the fact that he died from syphilis. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is to my great dismay that there are multitudes of people in USA and Europe who worship this criminal. I lived in that country, in the &quot;communists paradise&quot;. The shadow of Lenin&#039;s corpse was cast over 1/6 part of all the land mass of the Earth. That &quot;paradise&quot; collapsed because people from more than 100 nations living there hated the system he created. Lenin was an &quot;equal opportunity&quot; hater &#8211; starting from capitalists to Jews, to Christians, to Muslims, to tiny nations of Siberia and etc. All had been enslaved and subjected to re-education all eradication (when subjects were too stubborn). That &quot;monster of a revolutionary&quot; is the father of terrorism, disregard to human life, rejection of all international and national laws and etc.<br />
The only thing to love about Lenin is the fact that he died from syphilis. </p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leftists will never understand the misery that their totalitarian ideology caused against the people of the world. Communism should be outlawed, period. It has caused nothing, but indoctrination and misery in the world. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leftists will never understand the misery that their totalitarian ideology caused against the people of the world. Communism should be outlawed, period. It has caused nothing, but indoctrination and misery in the world. </p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. Lenin&#039;s &quot;Red Terror&quot; was indeed inspired by Robespierre&#039;s Reign of Terror in France during the 1790s. It is important to remember that Robespierre was the father of Communism. He and his Jacobins overthrew the monarchy of King Louis XVI (who was an American ally) not because the king was an absolutist, but because the Jacobins wanted total power for themselves. While Britain&#039;s King George III may have opposed the revolt openly (he did so mainly because he feared a revolt against himself, not because he disliked the Jacobins), there is some indication that his regime may have secretly financed the Jacobins and their revolution, as Britain was angry that Louis&#039; France supported the American Revolution and the independence of the United States of America. So, as we can all see, left-wing anti-Americanism goes as far back as the French Revolution. That&#039;s the reality.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes. Lenin&#039;s &quot;Red Terror&quot; was indeed inspired by Robespierre&#039;s Reign of Terror in France during the 1790s. It is important to remember that Robespierre was the father of Communism. He and his Jacobins overthrew the monarchy of King Louis XVI (who was an American ally) not because the king was an absolutist, but because the Jacobins wanted total power for themselves. While Britain&#039;s King George III may have opposed the revolt openly (he did so mainly because he feared a revolt against himself, not because he disliked the Jacobins), there is some indication that his regime may have secretly financed the Jacobins and their revolution, as Britain was angry that Louis&#039; France supported the American Revolution and the independence of the United States of America. So, as we can all see, left-wing anti-Americanism goes as far back as the French Revolution. That&#039;s the reality.  </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I doubt there&#039;s any direct causative relationship between the French Reign of Terror and Lenin&#039;s Red Terror.  For one thing, the French Reign of Terror was put in place to keep the aristos and the Church in line, while the Red Terror was aimed at anyone who was deemed to be interfering with the Bolshevik plan of action.  In the Soviet regime, you could be democrat, tsarist, anarchist or socialist; just grist to be ground up in the collective mill. 
 
The French Revolution has, however misguided, its roots in the Enlightenment, while the Russian Revolution&#039;s most obvious influence is a thousand years of history of living under the rule of the knout. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I doubt there&#039;s any direct causative relationship between the French Reign of Terror and Lenin&#039;s Red Terror.  For one thing, the French Reign of Terror was put in place to keep the aristos and the Church in line, while the Red Terror was aimed at anyone who was deemed to be interfering with the Bolshevik plan of action.  In the Soviet regime, you could be democrat, tsarist, anarchist or socialist; just grist to be ground up in the collective mill. </p>
<p>The French Revolution has, however misguided, its roots in the Enlightenment, while the Russian Revolution&#039;s most obvious influence is a thousand years of history of living under the rule of the knout. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s the Jewish way of counting.  I have significant doubts that the Nazis followed the Jewish practice.  But that&#039;s just me. 
 
Aleichem shalom. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#039;s the Jewish way of counting.  I have significant doubts that the Nazis followed the Jewish practice.  But that&#039;s just me. </p>
<p>Aleichem shalom. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Measures Taken in college, back in the 1960s. &quot;Die Massnahme,&quot; was that its German title? It&#039;s about Soviet agitators trying to spread Bolshevism to China, and the decision to murder one of the Soviets when he acts as an individual to fight oppression, thereby betraying the existence of the Soviet Communists in the area, is that right? Is that the play?  
 
Brecht was a slippery character. Just have a look at the transcript of his testimony before HUAC. You can find it in the book Thirty Years of Treason. He left the U.S. immediately after giving his testimony and never came back. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read The Measures Taken in college, back in the 1960s. &quot;Die Massnahme,&quot; was that its German title? It&#039;s about Soviet agitators trying to spread Bolshevism to China, and the decision to murder one of the Soviets when he acts as an individual to fight oppression, thereby betraying the existence of the Soviet Communists in the area, is that right? Is that the play?  </p>
<p>Brecht was a slippery character. Just have a look at the transcript of his testimony before HUAC. You can find it in the book Thirty Years of Treason. He left the U.S. immediately after giving his testimony and never came back. </p>
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		<title>By: tismaneanu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 19:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks a lot for the comment. I look forward to reading your books about the role of myth in Marx&#039;s thought. About Brecht&#039;s infamous play (&quot;Die Massnahme&quot;), a tribute to the Comintern&#039;s cynicism, there are fascinating remarks in Koestler&#039;s memoirs.I just read that the unrepentantly Stalinist Greek Communist Party (KKE) organizes a Brecht Festival in Athens...  
  
The play&#039;s music was by Hans Eisler, a modernist composer, later the author of the GDR anthem and a very tormented character who never broke with the Bolshevik Left. Eisler&#039;s brother, Gerhard, was an Agitprop hack in the GDR (during the war he lived in the States and was most likely a Soviet spy). The sister was Ruth Fischer, in the early 1920s a flaming German communist, then an anti-Stalinist author (&quot;Stalin and German Communism&quot; is a classic). Again, Koestler wrote great pages about the Eislers. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks a lot for the comment. I look forward to reading your books about the role of myth in Marx&#039;s thought. About Brecht&#039;s infamous play (&quot;Die Massnahme&quot;), a tribute to the Comintern&#039;s cynicism, there are fascinating remarks in Koestler&#039;s memoirs.I just read that the unrepentantly Stalinist Greek Communist Party (KKE) organizes a Brecht Festival in Athens&#8230;  </p>
<p>The play&#039;s music was by Hans Eisler, a modernist composer, later the author of the GDR anthem and a very tormented character who never broke with the Bolshevik Left. Eisler&#039;s brother, Gerhard, was an Agitprop hack in the GDR (during the war he lived in the States and was most likely a Soviet spy). The sister was Ruth Fischer, in the early 1920s a flaming German communist, then an anti-Stalinist author (&quot;Stalin and German Communism&quot; is a classic). Again, Koestler wrote great pages about the Eislers. </p>
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