[lbo-talk] A short soliloquy on freedom and fishing

[andie_nachgeborenen]

This is great! Particularly for the Thaw and Post Thaw years when there was some reason for intellectuals to live in fear. The essay would have been strengthened by mentioning that not having to fear the knock on the door in the middle of the night is really an important sort freedom, but was much less an issue after Stalin's death. 

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> On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I was a student, deep down behind the Iron Curtain, an event took
> place that shaped my thinking about freedom for the years to come.  I was
> invited to a boozing party organized by the local university students.  The
> times were the 1970s and it was chic to be a political dissident, so the
> conversation centered on kvetching about “the system.”  Alas, there was a
> fellow there, a student at the local Higher School of Agriculture we were
> told, who remained silent.
> 
> http://wsokol.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-short-soliloquy-on-freedom-and-fishing.html
> 
> -- 
> Wojtek
> 
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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