From Red to Green keyword-state-theory in the absence of hard

in the absence of hard evidence

a widespread retreat into introspection and inertia

Combining empirical and theoretical materials throughout

Oxford in 1970

From Red to Green keyword-state-theory in the absence of hardWhen Rudolf Bahro left East Germany in 1979, two years after publication of The Alternative in Eastern Europe, very little was known about the background to this imposing study of the structures and suppressed potential of 'actually existing socialism'. In this series of interviews organized by New Left Review, he systematically discusses his childhood years in Nazi Germany, his political and intellectual development as a loyal though never unthinking