The Attempts To Command The Climate And

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.

Common Foreign Policy Is Completely Unnecessary. The Various European Countries Have Widely Differing Priorities, Goals And Prejudices. It Would Be Wrong To Force Them All To Follow The Same Course.

I Was Paid To Read Western Economic Texts. In A Way, The Regime Paid For Their Own Undermining.

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.

People Like Me Who Were Engaging In Brinkmanship With The Party Economic Bosses And The Open Dissidents Who Were Being Arrested Were Pursuing A Common Goal In Different Ways.