Communism Similar To Václev Havel's Living In Truth

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Lenin’s vision of communism is similar to Václev Havel’s reading, Living in Truth. Like Lenin, Havel believes communism is also no longer the future. The text expresses that the modern ideologies and politics are antiquated and need change. Havel wanted the citizens to stop living their life’s in a lie and start “Living in Truth”. In order for there to be a new society with new rules and laws the “ordinary people” must change first. The citizens should believe that under certain circumstances they could overcome the army of soldiers, policemen and bureaucrats and not let the “evil” prevail. Havel stated in The Power of the Powerless, “each country has been completely penetrated by a network of manipulatory instruments controlled by the