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'Was Führt Zum Frieden, Was Zum Krieg?': Arguments On Peace in the Gdr

'Was Führt Zum Frieden, Was Zum Krieg?': Arguments On Peace in the Gdr JOHN SANDFORD (Reading, U.K.) 'WAS FÜHRT ZUM FRIEDEN, WAS ZUM KRIEG?': ARGUMENTS ON PEACE IN THE GDR 'Peace' has always been an important word in the official vo- cabulary of Marxism-Leninism. In the GDR, the idea that the . 'first German workers' and peasants' state' is at the same time a " peace state' is a cornerstone both of the country's self-percep- . tion and of its internationally projected image. Peace and social- ism, it is asserted, are indivisible: the GDR, like other socialist states, is systemically incapable of starting a war.. It is, however, fully capable of engaging in one should it ever be attacked by imperialist forces, and this capacity is a guarantee that the likelihood -of such an attack is minimaL The --S1r.ength -of the so- cialist states-and that means in particular, though by no means exclusively, their military strength-is thus in today's dangerous world the ultimate guarantor of the maintenance of peace.1 The equation of military might with peace can appear para= doxical, and it has-over the past few years especially- not been an easy notion for the authorities in the GDR to sustain. Like their counterparts in the West-whose strategic thinking is un- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

'Was Führt Zum Frieden, Was Zum Krieg?': Arguments On Peace in the Gdr

Sandford, John
East Central Europe , Volume 14 (1): 179 – Jan 1, 1987
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© 1987 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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JOHN SANDFORD (Reading, U.K.) 'WAS FÜHRT ZUM FRIEDEN, WAS ZUM KRIEG?': ARGUMENTS ON PEACE IN THE GDR 'Peace' has always been an important word in the official vo- cabulary of Marxism-Leninism. In the GDR, the idea that the . 'first German workers' and peasants' state' is at the same time a " peace state' is a cornerstone both of the country's self-percep- . tion and of its internationally projected image. Peace and social- ism, it is asserted, are indivisible: the GDR, like other socialist states, is systemically incapable of starting a war.. It is, however, fully capable of engaging in one should it ever be attacked by imperialist forces, and this capacity is a guarantee that the likelihood -of such an attack is minimaL The --S1r.ength -of the so- cialist states-and that means in particular, though by no means exclusively, their military strength-is thus in today's dangerous world the ultimate guarantor of the maintenance of peace.1 The equation of military might with peace can appear para= doxical, and it has-over the past few years especially- not been an easy notion for the authorities in the GDR to sustain. Like their counterparts in the West-whose strategic thinking is un-

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