On the Death of Václav Havel
Submitted on December 21, 2011
By Peter Schwarz - WSWS
Havel was the kind of democrat who above all saw Stalinism as an obstacle to their own social advance, because they were denied the social status, wealth and prominence enjoyed by sections of the upper middle class in the West. He was largely oblivious to the fate of working people...Havel [was an] ideal instrument for the restoration of capitalism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
