Thrown Out With the Bathwater – Social democrats lost when the Berlin Wall fell and they abandoned idealism to the neo-cons

By Ian Buruma, Professor of human rights at Bard College in Annadale-on-Hudson N.Y.
Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and the Soviet empire was collapsing, only diehard believers in a communist utopia felt unhappy. A few people, of course, clung to the possibility of what was once called “actually existing socialism.” Others criticized [...]