English Abstract

We commemorate in the year 2009 the third liberal revolution in Germany.After the european liberal revolution of 1848 / 49 and the social-democraticand republican Revolution of 1918/19 was the revolution of 1989 acontribution to the global liberation from communism.

In contrast to the fractional class of capitalists have state classes a highdegree of centralization. The use of the surplus product, they are not subjectto market competition, which would force a re-investment. "The state classesare rather free of the social surplus product for their own consumption to beused as long as the stability of the political system is not threatened."(Hartmut Elsenhans) The State class acts in the tension between self-interestof privilege and the need to legitimize their own power. Rent and profit aretwo different forms of surplus product. State classes are the owners of rents.

Communist state classes fight to legitimize their power from the oppositionto capitalism and bourgeois-liberal democracy. They wont to create anideological identification of interests of workers with a majority of theofficials of the power structures.

Without constant massive influence and control this identification can not beforced. Communist elites need the strong control of society, they can nothave free press and free publicity, so they need also the secret service as theironly reliable sources of information. Before the eyes of the world, the elitesstruggling desperately to provide a strong facade, fake a powerful image.They are well aware of their secret service, that the majority of thepopulation in the communist state is thinking, that the communism is notworth defending.

To the asked issue an overview is offered, remembering what happened. Butthis also with normative questions: How the government unit for the majoritywould have been created better? What are the dangers in such a transition?What can we learn from the german case for Korea?How could succeed in the destabilization of the dictatorship in North Korea?How we can promote thus the reunification of Korea as a republic?

From the year 1985, the subversive groups in east-german "GDR" to assume,that the Soviet Union would have under Michail Gorbachev no longerinterested in the defense of the government in East-Germany.Today we can see in China there are three taboos: free trade unions, theleadership of the Communist Party and human rights.It's just a matter of time until the government of China to the preservation ofpower in his own country is closer than the interest to be the protector of theNorth Korean dictatorship. In this respect, the situation could soon becomecomparable with the final phase of the east-german "GDR": The governmentof a part-state loses its supporting and protecting of a major power.

Then my thesis: Communist elites can maintain their power only as long asthey are able both to prevent the escape as also the organized resistance ofthe population.

Finally, I offer fourteen recommendations for South Korea to the discussion.For the resistance in a dictatorship is nothing more important than theexternal support and the media world's attention.

Edition Kritik & Kreation 2009