Do you still remember the turn of the 1980s? Older people no doubt remember it. As I recall, those were the days of protests and, in many cases, strikes. It began relatively innocently, then escalated, and finally ended with the fall of the regime and the total transformation of society. What emerged after the Velvet Revolution is in many ways the exact opposite of what it was before. What was impossible before the revolution became normal, and vice versa.
And what we did then, especially of our own volition. For example, we ended egalitarianism and stopped the state from deciding so many things for us human beings, allowing us to be the creators of our own happiness. Capitalism simply began to develop in our country. But it was never called that because the word was discredited by the previous regime and many people feared it. This is in contrast to the concept of a market society.
And today, the strike is happening again. For what, of course. We are only a generation old, but the protesters and strikers are demanding something very different from what they did in 1989. Today\’s protesters and strikers want better, just as they did then. But they no longer care about having the right to a better life for themselves, so to speak. What they want today is for the state to take care of them in a socialist way. So that the state can offer them a better life in return for their labor. And it does not matter that the state is in the same economic desperate situation as before and has nothing to offer.
While we hoped then that the government would stop interfering in our lives and that we would be able to prosper, many of today\’s demonstrators believe that the state has allowed us will be able to live a better life. Who should take care of us?
So our society has changed. We have changed and we have not changed. We are different from before, but at the same time we are the same. We want a better life, but more often than not we would rather have someone else take care of us than take care of ourselves. Generations have changed, but socialism remains entrenched in many of us. And we can only hope that this time the silent majority will stand up for it. Socialism will never be revived because the majority of our society is not willing to fend for itself.
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