personal-blog/content/post/havel-marx-and-lenin.md

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title: "The Power of the Powerless - Part 1: Havel, Marx, and Lenin"
date: 2022-02-21T15:21:31Z
tags: ["communism", "marxism", "dissent", "free speech", "vaclav havel"]
topics: ["philosophy", "politics"]
image: img/power-of-the-powerless-resized.jpg
description: "Vaclav Havel respected his communist mentors. That is the context in which we should understand this text."
draft: false
---

This post is a placeholder in which to post my first video commentary on Havel's "The Power of the Powerless". 

One errata: I said he was critiquing the Russian government. This isn't entirely correct. He's critiquing the Russian soviet, the Czechoslovakian government, and all other governments he labels as "post-totalitarian". We'll get into that, as the commentaries continue.

{{< odysee havel-marx-and-lenin >}}

UPDATE: You can find a playlist with all my commentary on this book, {{< abstab title="here." url="https://odysee.com/@gmgauthier:0/havel-marx-and-lenin:7?r=7TNzG1B7iyfhh3hCHUi15NTxQ3CcH43n&lid=bb708888546df8f4b31e8d977276fa8e98bf596c" >}}