Comments on: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall http://athousandnations.com/2009/11/09/reflections-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ Towards a Cambrian Explosion in Government Tue, 29 May 2012 02:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Clarifying My Vision for a Better World | Michael Strong http://athousandnations.com/2009/11/09/reflections-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/#comment-1864 Mon, 10 May 2010 18:20:33 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=797#comment-1864 [...] tragic, vision of a better world for a hundred and fifty years.  Since the collapse of communism, for which we should all be grateful, we have [...]

]]> By: Contemplationist http://athousandnations.com/2009/11/09/reflections-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/#comment-1022 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:32:55 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=797#comment-1022 Oh my holy internet lord. This is precisely the sentiment I’ve been meaning to put to words. Thank you Mike! Thanks so much. Some of my friends think me a fool for caring about things like this. But I’m from India, where the Communist Party still rules in a couple of states. It has indulged in outright political assassinations of opposition, finishing it off in one state, etc. Our first prime minister Nehru was a Fabian socialist who followed the Soviet model and condemned hundreds of millions of my fellow countrymen to abject poverty for 4 decades, with his love of the socialist ideal.

It gnaws at me from within how these leftists are able to survive without uttering a word of apology. The Nation magazine if you haven’t seen it yet, ran an article pretty much stating that although fall of the Berlin wall was considered a failure of socialism, this hasn’t yet been proven. Yes I kid you not. The Nation continues its deceptive love of murderous utopia.

At this point, I’ve lost all faith that this is ever going to happen, that all those Communists and socialists in the academy are ever going to be held accountable for their reprehensible judgments and slander of decent, tower intellectual giants in the liberal tradition like Hayek and Friedman. It ain’t gonna happen. And one of the by-product tragedy of this is the current crop of ‘progressive’ college kids, who have only an inkling of an idea of what communism was, or how the monstrous experiment turned out. They have no presumption of liberty as they have no direct experience of the monstrosity of the State.

Oh well

]]> By: Link Archipelago: Fall of the Wall Edition « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom http://athousandnations.com/2009/11/09/reflections-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/#comment-1009 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:00:05 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=797#comment-1009 [...] own Michael Strong posts here on Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Art mirrors Berlin [...]

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