Justice & Law Quote by Vaclav Klaus

You can hear the hinge of history creaking in Klaus's sentence: a statesman trying to turn an entire economic order without admitting how violent that turn could feel. The promise is bluntly administrative - sell shares to workers, legalize private enterprise, remove caps - yet the rhetoric is pitched as permission rather than upheaval. "Allow" does a lot of work. It frames freedom as something the state can grant, which both reassures a population raised on bureaucratic guarantees and quietly preserves the government's role as gatekeeper even while it claims to step back.

The worker-share line is the shrewdest piece of political engineering. It borrows the moral language of socialism (workers owning the means of production) to sell a capitalist outcome: privatization. By offering employees a stake, Klaus tries to convert potential losers of the transition into partial beneficiaries, or at least into stakeholders with something to protect. It's a pressure valve for resentment, packaged as empowerment.

The real ideological payload sits in the final clause: "no limits". In late communist Czechoslovakia and the early post-1989 moment, limits were the system's grammar - output targets, headcounts, quotas, permissions. Declaring their removal isn't just policy; it's a cultural reset, an invitation to imagine ambition without asking leave. The subtext is also a warning: the safety rails are coming off. Freedom, in this framing, arrives not as comfort but as exposure.