Has anyone here been required to withdraw from university?

I dropped out of school because they wouldn't let me drop my classes to get a job to pay for it and I didn't want to take out tens of thousands of dollars in more loans.

There isn't much to elaborate. Basically when the German alphabet soup is monitoring your party, you can't work anywhere which is a public organization. The university committee said they are going to block me from working at the university as long as I'm in a socialist party.

For a comrade of mine, it's even worse. Guy can't do his PhD because he's in a socialist party. Case even made it into local newspapers.

According to right-wingers, all the universities are marxist. How can you seriously believe that crap when this shit happens?

Wow. Maybe Tankies are right. Holy shit…

what the fuck? this would never happen in burgerland

If burger land had a real big socialist party thereally would be McPurges for our based Freddumbs

In Burgerland the alphabet soup don't monitor your party, they get into the party and make a pigs breakfast of it so they don't even need to fire you.

Yeah, Bavaria is ruled by right-wing populists with an absolute majority since World War II. They had a law called "Radikalenerlass" which basically banned all left-wingers from working within a public institution, but resistance was pretty strong against that so they officially dropped that at 1991. But in practice, nothing has changed. What they do now: The Verfassungsschutz (Secret Police) informs the public institutions when someone from a socialist party attempts to work there. The ridiculous thing is that we aren't militant Maoists or some shit, the official party manifesto has a pretty strong eurocommunist tendency. Even the SocDems from Die Linke are often getting bullied by the secret police.

abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.kein-uni-job-wegen-dkp-mitgliedschaft-verhinderter-doktorand-ich-haenge-seit-wochen-in-der-luft.1e0b0a9e-4b82-4a49-9d49-2b3d9e96cc31.html

Article about the guy who can't do his PhD because he's in the DKP, maybe Google can translate this

Wow. I have no problem with redpilling on anarchism and leftism in my university.

And yeah, I'd assume that would happen. However we have our fair share of undercover alphabet soup in Germany as well. Sometimes they are outright Nazis. And by Nazi I mean people who are literal unironic Not Socialists who kill people of other races.

A couple of years ago, some undercover agents of the secret service aided a small cell of Nazi terrorists to kill over a dozen of Turkish people.

Why is Germany simultaneously peak IdPol neoliberalism and has security services brimming with literal unironic Nazis?

How has there not been a coup yet?

Maybe you should migrate to Poland.

neoliberalism/fascism
two sides of the same coin

Well, too bad there is no alternative to Capitalism right. Good thing I can sigh about corruption and go back to my life knowing it'll be sorted out.
That is serious bullshit man, is this in Germany?

As a matter of fact, yes.

It sucked for a long time, but now I'm giving speeches and things are looking up.

Isn't Poland like the anti-communist capital of the world?

Except for maybe South Korea.

Maybe because the majority of the working class is split between peak idpol liberalism and literal Nazis.

Checks and balances I guess. Classcuckery. Guilt tripping.

Pretty much. However most of the working class who is currently rebelling joins alt-right lolberts spooked about anuddah shoah. Stuff like this shit…

theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/15/germany-neo-nazi-terror-cell-doner-killings

… happens mostly underground.

Yeah. One of the secret agents was called "Little Adolf" in his hometown. When these murders started to happen, police and secret service assumed "it must be these sandniggers killing each other" and targeted all investigation towards the Turkish community. The very same secret service which secretly aided the murders, mind you. Police was in it too. Covered up a lot of shit.

Problem is in Germany, unlike as it is in burgerland, heads never roll. The people in charge responsible for these actions (or even the Nazi agents themselves) aren't going to be charged, they are just going to be removed to a different occupation. There is going to be a parliamentary board "debating the issue", hearing some witnessed and the press does some artifical outrage - by the end of the day nothing happens and the very same people are still going to be in charge.

I was laughing when this Volkswagen affair was happening with their manipulation of the emissions. VW boss of the USA actually got sentenced - in Germany, these people will be appointed to be part of the commission which is tasked to investigate the accusation against THEMSELVES. The law against such manipulation in the future will be drafted by the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who committed that in the first place. A fucking joke, nothing more.

And suddenly I understand every Tankie that ever was.

Does your tank flag mean that you would like the DDR better?

The DDR had some flaws (for example corruption within commodity distribution which led to managers writing up goods which didn't exist; or the whole surveillance paranoia) but was mostly having trouble due to their material situation - USSR extracted extremely high reparations from it (a country destroyed for war) and also took away all their scientists while West Germany was showered in US dollars due to the Marshall plan. Guy in this video quotes studies that say if there weren't war reparations in the East and no Marshall plan, GDP per capital would be ten times higher in the GDR than in the FRG:

youtu.be/2QGYZoxlY28

Generally the GDR did the best it could, it had to rely on exports which established a lot of production for exchange, but besides that, it wasn't revisionist. Some things were better than in the FRG: Better education, no unemployment, better healthcare, no homelessness, high security, strong workplace communities, worker control in agriculture, etc. In general there is no point to he nostalgic about it but I don't think it is safe to say that the GDR "failed". It was politically dismantled, and operated under extremely hard conditions.

Are you from the East or the West?

I'm from the West

And to be honest I'm glad, because communist parties in the East are mostly grandpas because the parties over there are functioning more as a veterans club for ex-NVA soldiers, I don't think they have any revolutionary potential. Ironically, the eastern faction of Die Linke are also the biggest reformists while the western version is definitely more radicalized.

I was hoping east because then you might know the about the following topic better but I'll ask anyway.

Here in the UK we're basically taught German unification was a massive kumbaya moment where everyone in East Berlin did a big peaceful protest and toppled the wall through the power of love and the evil GDR collapsed. What do you understand to have happened?

In burgerland we gloss over german unification and the end of the ussr. It's kind of amazing how there's almost no contextualization of what the environment was like, etc. in 1989-1991.

Dick is that you?

I call bullshit on that. I mean it is correct to say that this was a case of German patriotism (Korean people would probably also be very happy if there was a reunification) but the whole thing was more about freedom to travel than about the dissolution of the GDR. I mean, it was just a cow deal between NATO and the collpasing USSR, it was in no way a "peaceful revolution".

I do think a lot of people tearing down the wall authenticly believed that the west was some sort of utopia. They were in for a bitter surprise. I talked to one who went over the border in 1989, and he told me he was shocked. He's never seen homeless people, ghettos with migrants or drug addicts before. Euphoria vanished very quickly.

What did they expect the west to be like and where did they get that expectation from?

The west invested a lot of money in propaganda, radio stations that told people the west is a country where wine and honey comes out of the tab. Near the wall, they build luxery buildings to show eastern people how much abundance of luxery there is. There was the KdW (Kaufhaus des Westens), a luxury mall for example.

I'd say culture also played a role. Access to American pop culture and consumer goods was something people wanted; but don't fall for the conclusion that western bands and movies were banned in the GDR. Unless they carried a particular anti-communist message, all big western rock and pop groups played gigs in the GDR.

Travel was important. East Germans considered themselves Western Europeans, and not having access to travel to Italy, Paris, Spain, Nizza, etc. was probably extremly frustrating - especially since East Germany is a region with shitty weather.

Also I'd like to say that among contemporary East Germans, you'll find very varying opinions about the GDR. Some will say they hated it, some say some things were better and some were worse, and some will say they overall would prefer the GDR over the west.

I've heard there's a similar law in texas. You can't work for the state or teach if you're a communist or something like that. I think someone linked to a r/physicalremoval post where they were applauding texas for having that law on the books