Tag: communism
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Supressing dissent in the age of Orwell
Totalitarian and autocratical regimes have a lot of experience with supressing dissent . I was born in the democratical Czechoslovakia (the nowadays Czech Republic). And people had a lot to say about how well the communists were good at oppressing dissidents and opposite opinions, stances and attitudes. However, the current Western world’s establishment, no matter…
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Why even a modern conservative cannot be a freethinker?
I post this article both on my blog and Freethinkers International. And I am sure my own blog more than aware readers have their opinion already formed. Yet, the ongoing debate on Freethinkers International has provoked me to write this piece. We live in megacities, use electricity, have microchips, atomic bombs, high-speed trains, however, we…
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Richard Dawkins doesn’t like the British people. And they are one of the least worst
Imagine a completely different country than the Czech Republic is, better in all of aspects – big salaries, great flawless people that you like all of them, excellent justice system, orderliness, communist-like social net, capitalistic profits, very polite politics. A completely different world. I used to hold British people in high regard unless I realized…
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The Czech Republic has a mentally retarded and mentally ill electorate
Nobody is, of course, talking about complete control of politicians, which means eradication of lobbyists, crooks, movers-and-shakers, super-rich groups, and lodges. No country has it. Mass media uncovering the extremely complex constellations of those aforementioned, educational institutions how to vote in the best manner with lifetime duration for all citizens. Total ignoring of cheap political…
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Why Marx’s Capital couldn’t be published or be influential nowadays
Karl Marx’s “Capital” is a work in the field of political economy and has been widely studied and influential since its publication. And its consequences besides academia and intellectual circles? Millions of extrajudicial killings, gulags, famine, and repressed freedom of speech, but also alleviating the negative attributes of capitalism: full employment, solid salaries, free healthcare,…
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How Mao had screwed up and China could have been a modern country had the US invaded it back in the days
Every developing country has its own political turmoil (yes, the politicians and those behind are just animals) that doesn’t really brighten the country’s prospects. Just like Stalin had absolute power, Mao could have done the same with his power to build the country down from the Middle Ages into an industrial empire. But no, senseless…
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The Czech Guantanamo where Havel was imprisoned: The murderers and torturers live among us
Be sure that people who tortured and killed people (soldiers, correction officers, mobsters, and freed criminals) are walking down the street. The small town of Jičín is no exception. Walking along the basswood alley built by then the most powerful man in Europe Albrecht von Wallenstein, you will get into Valdice which is a small…
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Museum of Capitalistic Crimes and Museum of Communist Crimes
As an anti-socialist, anti-communist, and a man who wants heavily regulated capitalism, I found it utterly funny that after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the new regime did exactly what new regimes do – blame all of its own mistakes on the preceding regime. So the old regime didn’t have any benefits, only liabilities. So…
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The expulsion of German people from Eastern Europe as a necessity
German people were widespread all around Eastern Europe. But with all the horrors of the Second World War, they had been repatriated. Yes, collective guilt is unacceptable even though one of the highest memberships of NSDAP (from the whole Reich) was in areas of Czechoslovakia where Germans were dwelling. During the Czechoslovakia First Republic, the…
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Why is Berlin devoid of skyscrapers? Politics as usual
The famous quote goes that Germany is “too big for Europe and too small for the world”. But 80 million people and their capital has only a few skyscrapers? My sensible readers are beginning to understand it. Politics = economy. Since Germany was totally defeated in WW2 (unlike during WW1), foreign capital started dominating Germany.…