%0 Journal Article
%T Moc bezmocnych: Some Thoughts from Afar
%A Roger Scruton
%J East European Politics and Societies
%@ 1533-8371
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0888325418755300
%X Havel¡¯s essay The Power of the Powerless described a unique situation in post-war Europe, when the Communist system of power was exhausted and those deprived of power under it were beginning to know each other and cooperate with each other in a new kind of underground. I describe the spiritual condition of a certain kind of young person in this underground, eager to find another cultural identity than the one offered by the official ideology and anxious to ¡°live in truth.¡± I suggest that the sudden collapse of Communism and the advent of a new consumer society left those young people in a certain measure bereft
%K Czechoslovakia
%K underground culture
%K Power of the Powerless
%K consumer society
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325418755300