Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and
critical history, the author examines the historical and
theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks
at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the
successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that
the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the
Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the
competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of
the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of
the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the
market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in
dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic"
(Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the
market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social
imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of
unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to
how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather
than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers'
movement.
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