A Review of Communism

George Konrad, Hungarian author:

...Many people feel empty, a world that seemed so strong just collapsed. Forty years have been wasted on stupid strife for the sake of an unsuccessful experiment. The values gathered together have vanished, the strategies for survival have become ridiculous. And so forty years of our lives have become a story, a bad anecdote. But it may be possible to remember these adventures with a kind of irony....

I wonder if we are starting our adventure? 


I wonder if irony provides any relief from suffering or the loss of dignity. It does permit us, however, to restart things unencumbered by feeling that we were idiots.