WORLD : E. German Party Admits Failure
The Communist Party today admitted for the first time that East Germany’s socialist system has failed, and expressed support for a type of partnership with West Germany.
The statement in the Communist Party newspaper Neues Deutschland was one of the bluntest official assessments to date of the country’s increasingly troubled situation. It came a day after shouting matches broke out over German reunification during pro-democracy protests in Leipzig and Dresden.
Neues Deutschland, in proposing a new party platform, said, “Socialism has definitely failed as a social system in our country,” and acknowledged that the “popular revolutionary movement” of the past weeks has led to the scrapping of the old system.
The paper repeated the Communists’ promise to work for a new “democratic socialism” within a multi-party system.
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