Berlin Wall Interview November 2009 part 1

Berlin Wall, its Fall, and the World Twenty Years Later
An interview by Debi Ghate, VP of Academic Programs at the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI)
with Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of ARI, and Dr. Onkar Ghate, senior fellow at ARI

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Baerlin Wall
• Ayn Rand
• Yaron Brook
• Onkar Ghate
• communism
• socialism
• fascism
• politics
• capitalism
• freedom
• west
• east

[shaunsadie007]

In referring to the latest EU Lisbon Treaty, establishing Europe as a sovereign entity, Pravda newspaper last week carried the headline, "Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the EU is now a reincarnation of The Soviet Union". If you think that the premises of Communist totalitarianism are defeated, just come to Europe and see what the unaccountable Socialist Commissars and bureaucrats have in store for the future of a statist European continent.

The idealogical battle is not over.

[Wejer3]

Yes, as long as the mainstream keep to the false premise that Communism is "good in theory, but bad in practice", we will have to keep fighting.

[grumpone]

@shaunsadie007

Couldn't have said it better myself. EU is gobbling all in sight and becoming a totalitarian super-state. Be ready for more controls and usurpation of any little freedom we have.

[freesk8]

Great video.

Why are the related videos to the far right not at all related?

Could it be the misspelled tag "Baerlin?"

They are all bad music videos!

[FilipinoObjectivist]

Wonderful interview.

[raybanseyes]

For those who wish to see a dramatic version of the meaning of the wall, see the Acadamy Award winning, foreign film, "The Lives of Others." Also see the special features of the movie. Although the story is told from the perspectives of two 'True Believers' in the system, It tells their story of the journey toward the downfall of this tarsand trap for human beings. The purpose of the wall was to keep the ambitious and the bright in, and to enslave them to the state.

[ronniereloaded]

Though the fall of Berlin wall unleashed liberalizations and economic reforms in country like India. But because the intellectuals(particularly the liberterians because of their own fundamental flaws) did not present right ideas for police, administrative and most importantly judicial reforms. Therefore, now we see that country is going back to socialism and slowly heading towards anarchy by default....!!!!

[WarVideo]

Watching news of the Berlin wall going down on tv was one of the first and oldest memories that I have as a little kid, but for me that was the only memory of the"Cold War" that I have.

[ALittleBitPregnant]

Informative