From 10b183c0ca6c3f541e859b01fd7eb10abd13c426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Gauthier Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:38:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The power of the powerless part 1 --- content/post/havel-marx-and-lenin.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/post/havel-marx-and-lenin.md diff --git a/content/post/havel-marx-and-lenin.md b/content/post/havel-marx-and-lenin.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10ecfb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/havel-marx-and-lenin.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +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: true +--- + +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 >}}