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Communism: Communism is a socio-economic ideology advocating for a classless society where resources are shared equally among members. It seeks to eliminate private property and establish a stateless, egalitarian system where the community collectively owns the means of production. See also Socialism.
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Václav Havel on Communism - Dictionary of Arguments

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Communism/Havel/Krastev: described the essential condition of communist Eastern Europe as the ‘absence of a normal political life’.(1) Under communism, nothing was rarer than ‘normality’. Havel also referred to Western-style ‘freedom and the rule of law’ as ‘the first preconditions of a normally and healthily functioning social organism’. And he depicted his country’s struggle to escape
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communist rule as ‘simply trying to do away with its own abnormality, to normalize’.(2)


1. Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (M. E. Sharpe, 1985), p. 89.
2. Cited in Benjamin Herman, ‘The Debate That Won’t Die: Havel And Kundera on Whether Protest Is Worthwhile’, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (11 January 2012).


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Havel, Václav
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Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019


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