GER403 10/27/2004 Nazirevolution -- Gleichschaltung (making everyone the same) "How to Tell Bad From Worse" by Michael Levin -- in the early 80s -- authoritarian vs. totalitarian -- scope is different -- authoritarian cares only about those who threaten the dictator's power; other things are ignored; authoritarian wants worship -- totalitarian wants to control all aspects of society; totalitarian wants worship (Personnenkult) -- Leni Riefenstahl film showing people taking oath of personal loyalty to Hitler -- people in Russia stopped worrying about the purges of a few years ago when Germany attacked in 1941, rallying behind Stalin -- kind of justification that authoritarians (stability at most) and totalitarians (utopia forced on a short-sighted populace) claim (what did Buber Neumann say was the goal of communism for as a young person? ertr?umten Zukunftsaat; also a new man) -- bourgeois or b?rglich -> fixed human nature with certain failings; utopians on the other hand think man can be perfected -- totalitarian dictators are brutal but only to the extent necessary to retain power; authoritarians will be much more ruthless -- Levins quotes George V. Higgins (is it the same Higgins from Louisiana who developed the Higgins boat during WWII used to land troops on the beaches? No, that was Andrew Jackson Higgins) as saying there's no one as dangerous as an idealist with a gun Bertolt Brecht -- he could travel because his wife was Austrian and he had an Austrian passport -- quote about him that er hat gemogelt (cheated), wie wir alle; he had capitulated -- poem "Die L?sung" -- the people have lost the trust of the government; the government should choose another people Johannes R. Becher "Nationalhymn der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik" -- wiederaufbau -- Auferstandnen (resurrection) -- 1945 is called "Das Jahre Null" in deutschen Kultur -- die DDR wollte Wiedervereinigung aber nur unter ihre Bedingungen -- Freide is a buzzword -- reach out hand to the peoples (V?lkern) of the other communist lands -- mothers won't have to cry over dead sons any more -- "?ber Deutschland scheint die Sonne" -- die DDR nannte selbst eine Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat -- die FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend) waren wie die Hitler Jugend) Dr Hye's friends had relatives in the east. The retired sister came to visit once (her son of course had to stay in East Germany). She told how kids had to decide between Konfirmation in der Kirche und Jugendweihe (a political ceremony to compete with confirmation). There were Kaderakten (cadre files) on each person and their decisions back to confirmation/Jugendweihe were recorded. Die Grundsatzerkl?rung -- vorbereitet von der Universit?t Greifswald -- Dr Hye's Doktormutter arbeitete dort -- this document is caused a problem for her; she couldn't sign onto Marxism -- there have been communist revolutions in Russia, China, Korea -- auch in ganz deutschland die Zukunft geh?rt; Vorbild f?r ein wiedervereinigtes Deutschland -- Zitat von Marx; wie jemand im Elfenbeinturm -- nur wenn man in Marxismus glauben, kann man unterrichten -- points: A) all teachers must be of highest quality B) Marxismus ist die bestimmende Ideologie; die Grundlage C) nie isoliert D) Lehrer m?ssen die marxistische Weltanschauung unterrichten E) die Arbeiterklasse ist die f:uhrende Kraft; keine Isolierung der Intelligenz von der Arbeiterklasse Handout -- three articles about Frau Dr Emmel: -- three students spent their time recording how much time Frau Dr Emmel (Dr Hyes Doktormutter) on each topic -- three times as much time on the decadent Franz Kafka as on the communist Betolt Brecht -- She wrote a book entitled "Weltklage und Bild der Welt in der Dichtung Goethes" (complaint about the world and Goethe's image of the world in his literature) -- one chapter was called "Die Welt als Kerker" -- Faust in the beginning in his office in the ivory tower is a kind of jail -- the East Germans called her book a Verf?lschung (bastardization) of Goethe's view -- she got in trouble because she didn't interprete Goethe in a Marxist way -- they asked what good the book was if it didn't help workers be better Marxists Story of Dr Hye as taxi driver as student in NYC and talking to Polish woman professor who cried because she wouldn't be able to tell the truth about what she saw in the US to her students or she'd lose her job</plaintext><br /></body></html>