Czech President Petr Pavel on Thursday signed an amendment to the country’s criminal code that criminalises the promotion of communist ideology, placing it on the same footing as Nazi propaganda.
The revised legislation introduces prison sentences of up to five years for anyone who “establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred.”
The change follows calls from Czech historical institutions, including the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, to correct what they viewed as a legal imbalance.
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I can’t imagine why a country that suffered under the USSR would want to put into law, to criminalize, the ideology that once fucked up East-Europe…
How the fuck do they still even have a literal Communist party!?
When I hear Petr Pavel signs a law banning pro-Soviet crap, I think liberal or not, what a chad.
The american tankies have literally no knowledge on european politics. Communism is banned in the majority of countries in former eastern bloc and these bans have been spreading with the ongoing rise of extremism.
Also, I am not aware of any communist party, that is promoting marxism/trockiism (aka the “good communism” most internet commies advertise). They are all just anti-EU pro-russian stalinists wanting to re-establish the regime, that tormented our nations for decades in our history.
There’s an anarchocommunist party here - or well, close to it, I feel. Good folk.
I wouldn’t say Trotskyism is “good communism” either. I am fine with most Marxists, just not the one doing cults of personality i.e. Leninist/Trots/Stalinists/Maoists/Hoxhaists etc. Decent Marxists are usually mostly democratic socialists, council coms, marxist-humanists and some neo-trots.
I come from a non-Marxist brand of socialism though.
Well, yeah, I don’t have problems with democratic/humanist marxists either. To me it just seems those aren’t really the branches this law is against. I now realize my previous comment might have been overly aggressive, for which i apologize.