I always think of this anecdote when I think of the freedom the West wrought
35 years ago, the NATO-proxy regime in West Germany annexed the German Democratic Republic (DDR). One of the very first “transition measures” was the dissolution of every Marxist-Leninist institute and university department and the expulsion or reassignment of their staff. This was justified as part of a process of the “enforcement of freedom… and associated de-ideologization”. What followed was perhaps the greatest upward transfer of wealth in human history. With the fall of the DDR, Europe lost a thriving socialist state, and the Global South — including Palestine — an important ally. The Germany of today offers unlimited support to our generation’s Holocaust, while operating as the vanguard in efforts to re-arm European imperialism.