PRAGUE - Genuine civil society is the truest fundamental of democracy, a truth often forgotten in the heat of election campaigns. Although Communism could, every now and then, coexist with private ownership, sometimes with private enterprise, it could never coexist with civil society. So the most fateful attack that accompanied the installation of Communist power everywhere was an attack on civil society.
PRAGUE - Genuine civil society is the truest fundamental of democracy, a truth often forgotten in the heat of election campaigns. Although Communism could, every now and then, coexist with private ownership, sometimes with private enterprise, it could never coexist with civil society. So the most fateful attack that accompanied the installation of Communist power everywhere was an attack on civil society.