Question:You have a very distinctive account of what the principal evil of communism was. People often talk in very general terms about totalitarianism and the sclerosis of the planned economy. But for you the real evil was the assault on the institutions of “civil association”—the closing down of choirs, theatre groups, reading societies, walking clubs, church institutions, charities and so on. Answer:Absolutely. I think I’m speaking the same language as Burke there. He was so prescient about what he saw as evil in the French Revolution. It was not just the executions and so on—it was the confiscation of civil society from its members. That’s what I felt most strongly [in Czechoslovakia], because I was trying to revive it in my own way. (ligação eletrônica enviada por Fabiano Schenth prospectmagazine.co.uk/blogs/jonathan-derbyshire/how-to-be-a-conservative-a-conversation-with-roger-scruton)
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