Mişcarea de disidenţă în Cehoslovacia: Vaclav Havel şi Jan Patocka
The dissident movement in Czechoslovakia: Vaclav Havel and Jan Patocka

Summary/Abstract: The Communist regime brought a lot of reactions. The kidnap of freedom of speech could not be ignored. Freedom is a fundamental element in ensuring a healthy society and it is also a “sine qua non” element in reaching progress. Some people were aware of this thing. They chose to fight against a faulty system, a system that doesn't affect only the elites, but also the destiny of the whole community. Within the dissident movement in Czechoslovakia, the voice of Vaclav Havel was the strongest. The famous playwright couldn’t be silenced. He chose to fight against the system, in order to defend the fundamental values of the society. Jan Patocka, despite the influence he had within the dissident movement, seems to be an enigma for a lot of people. He will remain in the collective memory as a Socrates of Prague, while Vaclav Havel will remain the man of truth. Jan Pavlik and Barry Smith found Jan Patocka and Havel as continuing the Austrian libertarian tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.

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