"Because of ambitions to change human beings, communitarianism is a form of elitism. Its advocates have the feeling that they have been chosen to advise, to moralize, to know better than the 'normal' people what is right or wrong, what the people should do, what will be good for them. They want us not only to be free, but to be good, just, moral as well. Of course, in their definition of what is good, just and moral."
KLAUS, VACLAV, Society and the Crisis of Liberalism, Policy, Summer 1998-99, posted by languageofliberty.com The original article this quote comes from is CERN WEB NOTE #7, Liberty and the Rule of Law by Václav Klaus at the "Leadership for America" Lecture, The Heritage Foundation, April 22, 1999, Philadelphia, posted at the old Carnegie Endowment website. Klaus Václav is the second President of the Czech Republic. This was presented at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ECONOMIC REFORM?
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