The integration of former East Germany within the expanded Federal Republic of Germany was handled very poorly, Richard Wolin told ILNA news agency.
The integration of former East Germany within the expanded Federal Republic of Germany was handled very poorly, Richard Wolin told ILNA news agency.
The ruling ideology since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or even earlier, is postmodernism. This is the ideological embellishment that the brutal neoliberal attack on Western societies' welfare (that was launched in the late 1970s) required in order to attain a "human", "liberal" and "progressive" face.
The immediate aftermath of the capitalist crisis of 2008 catalyzed the radical Left’s split between, on the one hand, a reinvention of the old form of anti-capitalist struggle and socio-economic organization, and, on the other, an imagining of new forms of political and economic existence.