The Idealists

Writing about Paul Berman's Power and the Idealists, Gene at Harry's Place recounts and quotes.

Berman tells about Hans-Joachim Klein, a friend of Fischer, who joined the Revolutionary Cells (a violent German group loosely connected to Baader-Meinhof) and was sent for military training in an Arab country.

He found himself in a military training ground where, in one part of the camp, European leftists singing left-wing songs received their anti-Zionist military training, and, in another part, European fascists singing fascist songs received their own anti-Zionist military training.

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Tagged: Revolution, The Left, Paul Berman