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The exodus of thousands of youthful East Germans across the
Austro-Hungarian border cannot be interpreted, as some Western
commentators would have it, as an abandonment of the teachings
of Karl Marx.  To be sure, the emigrants are hoping for a better
life than they found under the East German regime.  But the
country to which they are travelling ... is not Thatcher's
Britain or apres-Reagan America.  ....  Both in the time
of the Weimar Republic, the Social Democrats altered the
features of capitalism.  By leaving East Germany the new
emigrants have chosen capitalism with a human face.  Its
humanization was and is the work of the party that Marx
founded.  And so the newcomers have gone from Stalin
back to Marx. - Nation, during Fall 1989, between exodus
and collapse of communism in East Germany.