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Hi all,

I'm student of finance and economics from Czech Republic. I've discovered objectivism during last year at high school through articles of Jiri Kinkor - great czech objectivist who translated OPAR into czech.

I'm primarily interested in economics and finance and their application to investing. I work part-time as financial journalist. I enjoy good art, non fiction books and also practicing martial arts.

I've spent several hours in the last few days reading some discussions on this website and I was enetertained and I also discovered some new insightes.

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Welcome to the forum!

I think OPAR ought to be translated into every major language. There is an obvious hunger out there, perhaps especially in eastern Europe.

Vavrinec, since both the The Fountainhead and OPAR have been translated, could you tell us what, if any, impact they have had. Are they generally discussed?

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Hi, Vavrinec.

As I live in the very north of Austria, I often cross the border to the Czech Republic, mostly at weekends. I specially like the area of Ceský Krumlov. I once started to learn your language but is not too easy! :)

Unfortunately, the Czech Republic also decided to become a member of the European Union, just a few weaks ago. As an Austrian, I'm suffering from the nonsense made in Brussels since 1995. :)

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Objectivism is almost unknown to normal people in Czech R., but it is known in general way to people who are interested in ideas and have politicily right wing orientation.

Most of them think of objectivisim as interesting curiosity from which they sometimes can borrow some idea.

For example our current president Vaclav Klaus in one discussion mentioned objectivism as a "great deductive system" :blink: . Or leading memeber of our currently strongest political party has written two years ago generally positive two page article about Ayn Rand. But mostly they view objectivism as another intelectual tool in defending capitalism. To them it is just like Hayek or Friedman.

At least some right wing politicians in my country like Mr Klaus who knows something about objectivism are not afraid to actualy use the word "capitalism" in public. From my reading of western newspapers and watching CNBC I observed that right wing politicians there almost never use the word capitalism, they only speak about free enterprise and democracy.

The most positive is that in Czech exists small but determined number of mostly young people who are serious students of Objectivism, myself including.

It is pity that we joined EU - garden of Eden for bureaucrats.

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Thank you for the information. It is good to know that there is a seed growing in the Chech Republic.

I've always loathed the idea of the EU, because it represents the culmination of that which has been the goal of every dictator in the history of Europe, Hitler being one gross example. It is the very nearly the same state of affairs depicted in Atlas Shrugged. So I, too, am sorry for your country. You now must contend with another socialist government, as well as the latest incursion of a warring Islam.

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Strange.

In all of Ayn Rand's fiction was translated into Hebrew, but none of her nonfiction, and also not OPAR.

We have, I think, two politicians in the whole of Israel who dare use the word Capitalism as a positive. But luckily, one of the is currently the Minister of Finance, and the other, the Minister of Justice. If I am at all positive about the future of Israel, it's on account of those two.

Both of them, however, justify Capitalism by the "common good", and not by reference to individual rights.

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I am so glad to hear from so many Objectivist individuals all over Europe. I myself come from Germany. But let me inform you that that there are plans to found an Atlas Institute Europe. Purpose is to promote the ideas of Ayn Rand. But I think it will be an libertarian project. I think we should start to connect Objectivst people from all European countries. Why not found EOS? European Objectivist Society.

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I think we should start to connect Objectivst people from all European countries. Why not found EOS? European Objectivist Society.

A good place to sign people up would be at the European Objectivist Conference in London. Here are the details from my CyberNet Calendar:

SEPTEMBER 24-27TH - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE - LONDON

The European Objectivist conference will be held September 24-27, 2004

in the heart of London, UK. The 3-day program will include lectures

from JOHN RIDPATH, JOHN LEWIS, ROBERT TRACINSKI, SCOTT McCONNELL,

KLAUS NORDBY, TORE BOECKMANN, and recently added to the program,

CHRISTIAN BEENFELDT.

See http://www.icognition.biz/iCon2004 or e-mail MERLIJN SLUIS ([email protected]) for more information.

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That's an encouraging sign. Wish we could have politicians like that in Hungary!

We do!

Quite a few American Congressmen and Governors -- particularly the younger ones -- cite Ayn Rand's books as their favorites and even quote Ayn Rand in their speeches and in letters to their constituents. From time to time I mention them in my CyberNet.

The times they are a'changing.

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We do!

Quite a few American Congressmen and Governors -- particularly the younger ones -- cite Ayn Rand's books as their favorites and even quote Ayn Rand in their speeches and in letters to their constituents. From time to time I mention them in my CyberNet.

The times they are a'changing.

Really? Wow, that's great. I guess we just need to wait for all of the Robert Byrd-era incumbents to die off and be replaced by more reasonable people. ;)

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Really? Wow, that's great. I guess we just need to wait for all of the Robert Byrd-era incumbents to die off and be replaced by more reasonable people. ;)

That's about the size of it. I don't think there's much hope of winning over the Lefties, but we don't have to. They are dying off and so are their supporters.

Our hope is with the young ones, so keep those contributions for ARI's Essay Contests coming in.

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