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Donate   • Having Courage to Fight the Evils of Communism and
Socialism      European Resource Bank 2008      TBILISI —
Discussions at the fifth annual European Resource Bank today
turned to the question of how to implement radical reforms, and
what we can learn from previous success stories such as Estonia.
A panel titled, “Reforms need more than sound economics,”
expressed the view that legislators of new democracies need to
put forward a moral vision when undertaking serious reforms, and
further to that, they need to bankrupt the previously dominating
communist ideology.      Communism and socialism have dominated
the social, political, cultural and philosophical space in large
parts of the world, and continue to gain traction under the
mistaken belief that their foundations were fundamentally right,
but were just implemented incorrectly. CATO’s Tom Palmer and
Estonia’s former Prime Minister Mart Laar were just two speakers
to put forward com