Thanks for Article and Future Enemy of Leftist Elite

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Olaf Schroeter wrote:

This is the piece from this week's ZEIT (Nr. 41, 1. Oktober 1998, p. 58)
that John mentioned. I think it should be considered as one of the last
of a dying species, now that Juenger is dead and Kohl ist gone (at
last). I wonder who's going to be the next enemy of the leftist elite?
It's a bit like the CIA without the Soviets...

Olaf,

Thanks indeed for sending the ZEIT article.
Saved me a trip to the City Library in
Malmoe. When you put up the question of
who will be the next enemy of the leftist
elite, do you mean only for Germany or globally?
Do you mean individually or in any other
sense. To me what the left calls "globalization"
seems to be a coming target. The growing power of the
free market is a dark cloud hanging over the left
threatening to take more and more power from
the states.

Of course the left has a respite presently with
the world economy in crisis, but this is not 1929
so there is reason to believe global market economy
will recover in a year or so.

Maybe Kohl has done his duty and maybe it is
time for something new. But in the recent Swedish 
elections (20 September) the voters deserted
the Social Democrats in droves turning to the
reformed communists. At least Germany was spared
that. Sometimes I wish I was in Bavaria.

Greetings

Bertil Haggman