NP but Brecht

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

This is private and posthumous indeed. At the time, and officially, Brecht
published a letter to Walter Ulbricht in the newspaper Neues Deutschland:
"History will pay its respects to the revolutionary impatience of the
Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The great discussion [exchange] with
the masses about the speed of socialist construction will lead to a
viewing and safeguarding of the socialist achievements. At this moment I
must assure you of my allegiance to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht

By esthetically so nonconforming Brecht. Whereas esthetically so
conforming Lukács was three years later active in the anti-Soviet
government of Nagy, avoiding execution only narrowly.


Paradoxical, to put it mildly.


Heikki


On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, jochen stremmel wrote:

> picked up from the www:
>
> After the uprising of the 17th June
> The Secretary of the Writers Union
> Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
> Stating that the people
> Had forfeited the confidence of the government
> And could win it back only
> By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
> In that case for the government
> To dissolve the people
> And elect another?
>
>
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> 2013/4/6 jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>
> > Whispering down the lane?
> >
> > What Badiou means, I think, is Brecht's poem Die Lösung (The Solution),
> > written 1953 but published only after his death:
> >
> > Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni
> > Ließ der Sekretär des Schriftstellerverbands
> > In der Stalinallee Flugblätter verteilen
> > Auf denen zu lesen war, dass das Volk
> > Das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt habe
> > Und es nur durch verdoppelte Arbeit
> > Zurückerobern könne. Wäre es da
> > Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung
> > Löste das Volk auf und
> > Wählte ein anderes?
> >
> > Don't download the official Twitter app here!
> >
> > Sent from my laptop
> >
> >
> > 2013/4/5 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> *Daniel Tutt (@DanielTutt <https://twitter.com/danieltutt>)*
> >> 4/5/13, 5:06 PM<https://twitter.com/danieltutt/status/320281260272525312>
> >> "In order to improve democracy, then, it?s necessary to change the
> >> people, as Brecht ironically proposed.?
> >> ?Alain Badiou
> >>
> >> Download the official Twitter app here<https://twitter.com/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>
> >
>