February 5, 2012

Lost Lessons of Communism's Fall

Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph

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If the European intellectual elite had not been so compromised by its own broad acceptance of collectivist beliefs, maybe we would have had a genuine, far-reaching re-appraisal of the entire ideological framework. And that might have led to a more honest political dialogue in which everybody might now be talking sensibly about capitalism and how it needs to be managed. It is people - not markets - that are moral or immoral.

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TAGGED: Soviet Union, Germany, UK, Berlin Wall, Communism, Eurozone

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