Quote Originally Posted by RonnieBird View Post
If you are, then do bear in mind that you're quoting Brecht in his defence of an East German regime which was one of the most cruel and brutal socialist tyrannies of modern times.

Do you therefore think we should start carrying on like the former DDR ?
Do bear in mind that you are talking 100% made up nonsense - again.

Yes the poem/song is Brecht's 'In Praise Of Communism' but it was not in defence of the East German Stalinist regime. It was written in 1930-31 as part of his play The Mother, and first performed in 1932. The East German republic was created in 1949. Brecht was writing about the struggle with rising Nazism in the Weimar Republic. It is an old poem/song, but in my opinion it is still as true and powerful today as when it was originally written.