The article 'Obsessions of Berling' was published in

Partisan Review
October 1948

Shortly after the end of the II. World War Paul Mattick renewed contacts and correspondence with his previous comrades from the German/Dutch or Council Communist current of the 30'ies. 

One of these was Reinhold Klingenberg, whom Mattick had know personally from his youth and who  -  still living in Berlin  -  could tell many details from the actual scene of the German Capital captured and managed by the Great victorious Powers. 

In 1948 Mattick himself managed to go to Europe and visit Berlin. There he met his old contacts and was able also to participate in some of the gatherings of the Group of International Socialists, GIS, around Alfred Weiland. From this trip he collected very detailed informations about the situation in Berlin  -  informations that was afterwards expressed and communicated in this article on the 'Obsessions of Berlin'.

This text was kindly forwarded from the publishers of the Kawosgar-website