ABSTRACT
Rudolf Bahro's unbending notion of how a social process is to be understood leads him to a very harsh general thesis: The Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia could lead to no other social structure than that now existing, and the more one tries to think through the stations of Soviet history. In particular, Bahro mentions Stojanovic's criticism of socialism in his book entitled Between Ideal and Reality. The scholastic social philosophy of the GDR, institutionalized as historical materialism, has developed a very astute system of concepts and propositions intended to enable every thinking contemporary to assimilate social processes in the modalities strategically controlled from the "commanding heights". Bahro is surely right in opposing a pseudo-Marxist interpretation in which consciousness "necessarily arises from the existing conditions". Most Marxist critics of our orthodoxy make things too easy for themselves by taking a merely methodological approach.
