ABSTRACT
The gap between the specific historical experiences of the generation that experienced, survived, and repressed or revised the Spanish Civil War, and those of the generation in the 1960s, must be tremendous or at least large. Peculiarly, the Spanish Civil War does not play such a prominent role in Rudolf Bahro's references to the central issues of the class struggle in the twentieth century. For many of the popes of critical solidarity, or more precisely, solidarity with the Communist Party of Soviet Union (CPSU) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) at any price, Bahro's arrest was a socialist action. However, anyone who takes a deeper look at the universal party and state slavery in Russia, instead of allowing elements of true democracy to develop, is a fundamental enemy of socialism. Marx recognized the positive side of private property in the Philosophical Manuscripts, but there was and is not one single positive side to universal state slavery.
