Communism Was Replaced By The Threat Of

The Largest Threat To Freedom, Democracy, The Market Economy And Prosperity, Is No Longer Socialism. It Is, Instead, The Ambitious, Arrogant, Unscrupulous Ideology Of Environmentalism.

This Is Crossing The Rubicon, After Which There Will Be No More Sovereign States In Europe With Fully-fledged Governments And Parliaments Which Represent Legitimate Interests Of Their Citizens, But Only One State Will Remain. Basic Things Will Be Decided By A Remote 'federal Government' In Brussels And, For Example, Czech Citizens Will Be Only A Tiny Particle Whose Voice And Influence Will Be Almost Zero. ... We Are Against A European Superstate.

The Message Of [fahernheit 9/11] Is Very Weak And Propagandistic ... We Were Used To Such Messages In The Communist Days. Everybody Has Open Eyes And Can Understand That This Is Propaganda. It Was A Weak Film That Tells Us Nothing New.

I Was 25 Years Old And Pursuing My Doctorate In Economics When I Was Allowed To Spend Six Months Of Postgraduate Studies In Naples, Italy. I Read The Western Economic Textbooks And Also The More General Work Of People Like Hayek. By The Time I Returned To Czechoslovakia, I Had An Understanding Of The Principles Of The Market. In 1968, I Was Glad At The Political Liberalism Of The Dubcek Prague Spring, But I Was Very Critical Of The Third Way They Pursued In Economics.

To Talk About Planning An Economic System Is To Talk In Old Terms, And I Find Myself Sometimes Having To Teach Westerners About What The Market Really Means.