What’s the deal with “The Idea of Communism”? – that’s the question you might want to ask after the conclusion of the communism conference that met under that very name at the Volksbűhne in Berlin. One thing is for sure: at the congress the universal in contradistinction to the particular was ever present. And something structural was evident too: among 17 presenters there was only one woman.
In the following I document my – slightly revised and expanded – statement in the closing discussion of the congress.
The universal was the dominant theme of the congress. In that connection, most of the presenters plead for the universal, commonality, equality and displayed a disdain of the particular. There was criticism [… more at: http://qlipoth.blogspot.de/2010/07/idea-of-communism-from-to-z.html]
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