The place is as described, simple but quiet.
I thank the hosts for the flexible check-in and also for the blender, cutting board, and knife to make myself smoothies.
The building is owned and managed by the German Communist Party, which calls itself the "German Marxist-Leninist Party" (MLPD in German). This is not a complaint, but was a supreme irony to me. What more bourgeois, imperialist activity could you imagine than renting rooms via airbnb to foreign tourists for a higher rent than you could get in rent from the locals? I am not judging this as much as noting the irony. Apparently, they comply with the local regulations in Berlin, where the same apartment is required to be occupied long-term, if rooms in the same apartment are rented short-term à la airbnb.
When I got the cutting board and knife on the ground floor from the MLPD, I asked one of the hosts whether I could call her "comrade". She smiled and said ok.
Naturally, they do not promote the Communist Party ownership and management in the airbnb listing, but it is plain to see from the label on the buzzer - MLPD - and the sign in the window on the ground floor - Marxistisch-Leninist Partei Deutschland (MLPD).
I had to laugh, when I took stock of the supreme irony of this situation.
Would Karl Marx roll over in his grave, if he knew?
Despite their propaganda about the class struggle, I ask myself:
Politically, what about the middle class - made up of journalists, writers, professors, independent merchants, and others? Where do they fit in their thinking? Is the state in the process in squeezing many of them out of existence today?
Socially, what about the individual, freedom of speech and freedom of press, and the communist history of suppressing these freedoms (and freedom of religion and freedom of assembly)? What about the Nomenklatura? Were they not imperialists, living in villas on streets not marked on maps?
Economically, what about the market and its existence for thousands of years for people to trade and exchange things?
Do they seriously propose that everything be produced and distributed by the state?
If everyone is dependent on the state, then is anybody free?
What about the failure and illusions of the Soviet Union?
Is a third way not possible between the unbridled collusion between big banks, big business, and the central state on one hand and complete central state control on the other hand?
What does their program say about vaccines (and health freedom to choose), 5G (and its risks), geo-engineering, glyphosate, and chemotherapy? For many, these are the real issues of our time. Think about it.
Of course, if you are a die-hard far leftist, then this is place is your home away from home. Perhaps they are having a good laugh on me and my file too. If so, let them.