Sentences with phrase «if authoritarian regimes»

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We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

But if it was unjust to link peace work and appeasement in the «40s, the suspicion was more understandable in the «60s, when some American antiwar activists made no effort to conceal their sympathies for an authoritarian regime in North Vietnam.

Where the conditions of the eighteenth century in pre - and post-revolutionary France and in what is now the United States currently exist — in Iran, China, Russia, and other authoritarian regimes — it may well be the path of prudence to act anonymously if one can, but those conditions do not apply in Canada, the United States, Europe and many other parts of the world.