Person
Václav Benda
∗August 8, 1946 †June 2, 1999
Czech dissident and author of Paralelní polis
Also known as Vaclav Benda
About
Czech dissident, Charter 77 signatory, and political theorist. Author of the 1978 samizdat essay Paralelní polis, which argued that dissidents should build parallel institutions — schools, courts, media — to make the totalitarian state irrelevant rather than confront it directly.
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