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The author is an economist and the President of the Czech Republic.
1 posted on 09/08/2012 1:01:57 AM PDT by No One Special
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Wow. He is right on the money and he sees it even more clearly than many of us.


2 posted on 09/08/2012 1:10:40 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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This one is a "saver."

Thanks!

Regards,

3 posted on 09/08/2012 1:20:43 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Brilliant analysis, excellent article. Always admired Klaus. A must read, especially points 4, 6, 7, 8, although all points are excellent. Number 4 really struck a chord.


4 posted on 09/08/2012 1:22:03 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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—>>1. We probably did not fully understand the far-reaching implications of the 1960s. This “romantic” era was a period of radical denial of the authority of traditional values and social institutions. As a result, generations were born that do not understand the meaning of our civilisational, cultural and ethical heritage, and are deprived of having any compass guiding their behaviour.

Thank you sharing this. A great read.


6 posted on 09/08/2012 1:27:53 AM PDT by Christie at the beach (I like Newt.)
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I have come to believe that ‘communism’ in whatever form it evolves into, is the easiest ideology to pull in the masses. Communism is full of platitudes, but the leaders are never responsible for outcomes. Their intentions are all that count, and as somebody once said ‘the road to .ell is paved with good intentions.

It is quite seductive to proclaim ‘universal healthcare’ and totally ignore who will be required to pay for the universe. It is akin to being forced into a religion created by evil minds.

7 posted on 09/08/2012 1:31:24 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Please help Todd Akin defeat Claire and the GOP-e send money!!!!!)
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This is probably the most important document to be uploaded on Free Republic in a very long time.

This basically describes the war we are engaged in right now.

It should be mandatory reading for every Freeper who believes in political and economic freedom.

Hell, I never thought I would say this in my life-time, because I lived through the dying days of the Cold War, but Eastern Europe—at least Poland and the Czech Republic— might be last stand against Marxist tyranny in the world.


9 posted on 09/08/2012 1:41:44 AM PDT by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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Simply outstanding.


10 posted on 09/08/2012 1:42:29 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Deep.He has managed to distill the critical factors at play and present them in an easy-to-digest manner. However, I am doubtful that it will make much difference since a greater and greater number of people continue to take the first tentative steps towards deeper and deeper acceptance of socialist thought and belief.

In some ways it appears that the fall of the Communist evil empire hastened the downfall of the West, since now there was no longer an evil bastion to stand up against (not just physically, but also standing against their ideologies and precepts).

With no evil monster beyond the ridge, suddenly certain ideas were no longer wrong. No longer anathema. No longer 'foreign.'

Go to (almost) any American university and have a chat with the young minds there ...to many of them socialism (and to some, communism) are perfectly viable approaches to running things. A rising number even believe socialism (and to a fortunately fewer number - but rising also - communism) to be far better alternatives to capitalism. The economic doldrums over the last 10 years have also not helped much, and the rise of the East (India, China and even smaller economies like Viet Nam) means that there will be people always willing to work almost as well for considerably less (wait until Africa gets in line in the next 15 or so years ...Google Silicon Savannah for a taste of whats cooking in my native Kenya for instance). That means, unless something big happens, the West will have more and more young people either a) without jobs or b) without jobs that THEY THINK (the young people) are 'good enough' for them (the second problem is worse than the first one since a lot of the young EXPECT to get a 'certain type' of employment ...read: they can buy new posh cars, live well, take vacations ...there is no postponement of gratification at play). This means they will always feel like they have been let down, and socialism (and at a more extreme level communism) will simply continue to get more and more attractive.

As for those saying this is only happening in Blue States ....think again. In the first Bush election (Bush vs Gore) I was in Oklahoma working with the College Republicans (a student group) to get voter awareness out. Note: As a foreigner I couldn't even vote, but I was out there helping. The level of apathy I noted, and the level of Liberal thought, was amazing. Same thing in Texas by the way. It is not a Blue state thing.

Then to this add the slow-crawl demographic shift in the US.

Anyways, the article is spot on, and a lot of victories will mean nothing if the war is lost.

11 posted on 09/08/2012 1:44:58 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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The democrat party in the USA has been moving the US steadily towards communism since the civil war. To be honest, some within the republican party as well.

True the modern thought is to call it socialism or progressivism, the affect is the same, a loss of individual rights in the interest of benefiting the greater good.

13 posted on 09/08/2012 1:57:18 AM PDT by exnavy (The time is upon us, fish or cut bait, may God guide your heart.)
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Wow. bookmark


17 posted on 09/08/2012 2:35:10 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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This shows a brilliant insight into the goings on of socialism after the wall. I have alwys wondered though whether the Communists saw the writing on the wall and strategically gave ground as thie rgolas were already being met by the UN and leftist parties in the West.

I feel confident today though in the possibility that the solialsts have overeached, Obama in your country and to some extent Gillard and Rudd in my own, seem to have awakened many to the fact that the war against Socilaism/Marxism is alive and well and that this maybe the time we can take back large amounts of ground from the b#stards and set their cause back 20 years.

Mel


18 posted on 09/08/2012 2:47:38 AM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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Intellectuals are to a great extent socialists because - as Hayek put it - they are convinced that socialism is a "science applied to all fields of human activity" and thanks to that, it is a system created "exactly for them." "Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people"[4] and that is why they do not want to be evaluated by the market, since the market often does not share their high self-evaluation.

That's gold, right there!
19 posted on 09/08/2012 2:55:27 AM PDT by hemogoblin
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Brilliant speech, thank you for posting it.

“I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism”
Whittaker Chambers

20 posted on 09/08/2012 3:10:20 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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This is the best essay on the problems facing us I've seen in ages.

Bump for the morning crowd.

21 posted on 09/08/2012 3:13:05 AM PDT by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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Bump


22 posted on 09/08/2012 3:17:53 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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Bflr


23 posted on 09/08/2012 3:24:34 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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Later


24 posted on 09/08/2012 4:05:16 AM PDT by I_be_tc
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For later


25 posted on 09/08/2012 4:18:16 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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Bacon


27 posted on 09/08/2012 5:21:00 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (We were the tea party before there was a tea party. - Jim Robinson)
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Bookmark for later.


30 posted on 09/08/2012 5:30:56 AM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$, A$PCA, or PETA.)
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