Petr Fischer: Communist-style apologies
The Communists are prepared to repeat their 20-year-old apology to Czech citizens. But this reprise is not a sign of repentance or an admission of guilt or – at least to some small degree – an indication that such guilt even exists! Behind the first and the planned second “apology” is the Communists’ typical pragmatism. An effort to gain something, not to think about their identity or those they have harmed. In everyday speech, this is called hypocrisy. For the sake of accuracy, Marxist philosophers would have called this an intentionally-created “false consciousness”. This was so they could say that subjective motives are less important in these situations than an objective historical process that has a deeper goal (a chanceContinue Reading