Abstract
Rudolf Bahro's The Alternative: Critique of the Really Existing Socialism1 is both an important theoretical contribution and a document of political struggle. Published in West Germany in the fall of 1977, Bahro's left communist critique of the Soviet type system in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has become an odd best seller there. Elsewhere Ernest Mandel has termed Bahro's book the most important theoretical work to come out of the post-capitalist societies since Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed;2 the GDR's reaction to the book and the publicity about it in the West (interview and excerpts in Der Spiegel, Bahro interviews in West television) was to jail Bahro as a spy. At this writing (June, 1978) he is still under arrest and held incommunicado.3*
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