Rudolf Bahro (18 November 1935 - 5 December 1997) was a member of the East German opposition.
On 25 August 1977 he published Die Alternative. Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus. and on 30 June 1978 he was imprisoned for eight years. He was released under an amnesty in October 1979 and deported to West Germany. In West Germany he was one of the founders of the Green Party.
In November 1989 he returned to East Germany and in December spoke at the congress which founded the Party of Democratic Socialism. He was cleared of all wrong-doing in June 1990.
Bahro is seen by many as a pioneer of the democracy movement. However others have accused him of being too uncritical of the far right.
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