Kurt Gossweiler in Correspondence with Peter Hacks (1996–2003) The 52 letters exchanged between the partners over more than 6 years testify to an extraordinary intensity on both sides. They are united in their shared contemplation of the same fundamental questions: What are the classes and class struggles in socialist societies? What role did figures like Nikita Khrushchev play in the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and East Germany? How could the defeat of 1989-90 have been avoided? And what forms of organization, education, and struggle are necessary for a future socialism? Through this correspondence, they come to know and appreciate each other, encouraging and challenging one another—with respect, insight, and trust... so intensely that one eventually asks the other: 'May I call you comrade?' The new, revised, and expanded edition following the all-too-quickly sold-out first edition from 2005 offers 220 pages of more detailed notes with additional materials and some previously unpublished documents.