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[Otto]

This is the extended url:
http://www.tnr.com/082701/berman082701_print.html

>From the radicalism of the '60s to the interventionism of the '90s.
The Passion of Joschka Fischer
by Paul Berman

And I really recommend this article. Having gone through it once (took me
a whole morning) I get the impression that it is highly informative and
pretty fair. And it's not only on Foreign Minister Fischer but shows how the
counterforce-movements of the 60' and 70's in different countries were
related to each other, the importance & special role of Germany's WW-2
experience, the Vietnam-war and US-foreign policy.

It is about "Who, us?" (Sec. VII)

Berman shows great insight in what had happened and how it was percerived
and evaluated by different people in different periods. Shivers went up and
down my spine at some parts, having lived through these years.

"In A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968,
Paul Berman gathered four longish, more or less related essays between two
covers. A new edition might well include a fifth, the one he's just filed
for The New Republic:  "The Passion of Joschka Fischer", subtitled "From the
radicalism of the '60s to the interventionism of the '90s." It takes Berman
nearly 200K to get from way back then to 1999, when the
street-fighter-turned-foreign-minister threw his weight behind Nato's
efforts to put a stop to Slobodan Milosevic. But unless you're already
intimately familiar with the tortured coming-of-age of the New Left in
Europe, this is a read very much worth a weekend afternoon. The tone is so
conversational you can't help but suspect now and then that Berman is
thinking out loud right there on the page. Which is fine. He draws a complex
map that flings all over the place, both geographically and chronologically,
but it's hard to imagine a more amiable guide." from.
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9442/1.html

Otto

> Howdy
> --- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > We may look at
> > why the
> > Baader-Meinhof, Red Brigades, Japanese Red Army, have been defeated.
>
> The New Republic recently published an extraordinary extended article
> on the radical European politics of the 1960's.  It follows several
> individuals (centering the inquiry on the German Green Party leader
> Joschka Fischer) as their views evolved in consequence of their
> involvement with and eventual repudiation of the Red Army Fraction, the
> Red Brigades, and the most radical of the Palestinian groups. Much
> ground is covered, and I came away feeling I understood one of my
> German friends a little better.  Here is the link:
>
> http://www.tnr.com/082701/berman_partone082701.html
>
> regards to one and all
> What Mr. Toad called (if memory serves) "lurid and inventive cheek" is
> healthy under these conditions, so roar on everybody...
>
> Mark
>
> My new mantra:
> Doubt is creative.  Doubt is humane. Only those who doubt can be just.
>