The Intellectual Legacies of Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich, and Robert Havemann
Historical Materialism Book Series, Band 306, Brill 2024
Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the GDR’s ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in the West in the 1970s, the Party treated it as an ideological manoeuvre of the class enemy. The three dissidents saw things differently: they combined socialism and ecology, adopting a utopian perspective frowned upon by the state. In …
