#264: Extrication from Totalitarian Systems

“….what else are parallel structures than an area where a different life can be lived, a life that is in harmony with its own aims and which in turn structures itself in harmony with those aims? . . .What else are those initial attempts at social self-organization than the efforts of a certain part of society…to rid itself of the self-sustaining aspects of totalitarianism and, thus, to extricate itself radically from its involvement in the … totalitarian system?”

[E.g., See https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/11/parallel-structures-new-hope.html]

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Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless as quoted (bold emphasis added) at https://academyofideas.com/2021/04/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world/

Václav Havel (... 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident,[1][2] who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. ... / His political activities brought him under the surveillance of the StB secret police, and he spent multiple periods as a political prisoner,[3] the longest of his imprisoned terms being nearly four years, between 1979 and 1983. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel