The Message - Hansen, Michael Ritivoi

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Résumé :
The Message is a birds eye view of the origin of Marxism, how it came to be a political system, what kind of a society it is, its daily life, all woven around my personal experience. The remarkable power of his message derives not from rhetorical device but from the searing authenticity of his early life experience. Without exception, the most potent critiques Soviet Communism have been written by those who have had first-hand experience of it. His [Dr, Michael Hansen] engrossing book The Message is both a history of his daily life under Communism and a philosophical and moral meditation upon Romanian Communism as a spiritual pathology.-Professor John Fleming, Professor Emeritus of literature at Princeton University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Past President of the Medieval Academy of America. The way the author was able to capture the stark reality of life under a Communist government, and the ways in which Communism strikes down the idea of individuality in those nations, was both heartbreaking and eye-opening to read about.-Pacific Book Review by Jack Chambers...

Biographie:
thirteen years before communism collapsed under its own weight. I had no choices and I had to live in the only environment available to me. I had nothing to compare communism with, except my own common sense. I witnessed how my father and my four uncles, all coming from poor families, raised to achieve higher education and professional success within our pre-WWII capitalist system and, how all suffered professional and small business setbacks under the glorious and fair communism. As they had to be and do as the communist system wanted, with what communism provided...

Sommaire:
I was born in Romania during World War II. There I lived through the communist ruling and the Marxist redesign of moral values. Those changes were supposed to set all citizens on the road to fulfillment. For lack of choices, I followed that road and became a successful dentist. My professional clout translated into some financial advancement, which helped me realize that what I truly needed was of a different nature: love, pride, wisdom, knowledge, none of which communism could offer. The unavoidable consequence was my dissidence and my immigration to the West. Settled in the United States, I went through a long process of purging the flawed mentality acquired while in communism. In the end, I found that the answer to my struggle is back in Romania where it all started.At the end of World War II, in disregard of international agreements, the Soviet Union imposed communism in the area given to it as Sphere of Influence. With this, a new value system was introduced into people's lives with consequences no one could predict. Reviewing my life in communist Romania, I show how a changed way of thinking determined, a changed way of living and how Marxism altered the nation's psychology and, in the end, ruined its own goals....