Am 02.01.2012 01:10, schrieb The Real Doctor:
On 31/12/11 12:54, Lüko Willms wrote:
He likes to point to the difference between workers in, say Hamburg or
Munich, who have lived all their lives under capitalism and those pesky
railway workers in Berlin who have not, and wants to subjugate those
into submission.

fantasizing again with tales not related to the issue in discussion:

Why did your comrades in (Ost)Berlin feel it necessary to kill railway
workers there who wanted to work in Hamburg, while the authorities in
Hamburg did not take similar action against railway workers who wished
to move eastwards?

back to topic:

I think this is very relevant to your claim that DR workers had a better
deal than DB workers.

Ask Herr Schnell. He is at least as reactionay as you are. He wants
that the Berlin railway workers be brought completely under the
capitalist whip, being humiliated, being thrown into misery, so that
they forget once and for all those conquests which they had won over the
past four decades before the GDR had been taken over by the German
capitalist class.

The difference which you prefer to ignore (because of your abysmal
hatred of facts) is that the GDR has not been conquered by NATO tanks
crossing the border, but by a popular uprising. And those people rising
up against their regime was to get _better_ conditions, not _worse._
Unfortunately most had a bad awakening when they suffered the
de-industrialisation of the ex-GDR organized by the West German
commissioners. But rail in Berlin was not something to be dismantled --
so different conditions. Railway workers in Berlin had more clout to
defend themselves than, say, shipyard workers in Rostock, or machinery
builders in Magdeburg.

But why should I bother you with facts which you want to ignore at
all cost!


L.W.