Neal Ascherson writes: "After the East Berlin rising in 1953, Bertoldt Brecht is supposed to have made the ironic suggestion that the Communist regime should dismiss the people and appoint a new one."
Bertodlt Brecht's actual quote:
“Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government's confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?”
Monday, June 25, 2018
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