Marketplace sample
The Marketplace sample ( Engl. : Town square test ) is a by Israeli politicians and former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky coined political term . With this test the freedom of a society can be tested.
Sharansky coined the term in his book The Case for Democracy , which appeared in 2004:
- If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a "fear society" has finally won their freedom .
German translation:
- “If a person cannot enter the center of the marketplace and speak their mind freely without fear of being arrested, imprisoned, or physically harmed , then that person lives in a society of fear, not a free society. We must not rest until everyone who lives in such a 'society of fear' has finally achieved freedom. "
The term gained popularity through the use of two high-ranking American politicians. George W. Bush , former President of the United States , recommended the book in an interview with the Washington Times . Condoleezza Rice quoted Sharansky in her hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs prior to her appointment as Foreign Minister , in which she coined the term " outpost of tyranny ".
References
literature
- Natan Sharansky , Ron Dermer, The Case for Democracy. The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror, (2004, ISBN 1-58648-261-0 )
Web links
- My Sharansky by Chris Suellentrop on Slate.com
- Testimony from Condoleezza Rice before the testimony as a PDF file ( Memento from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (53 kB)
- The Town square test in practice with the carrying of an Israeli flag in the center of Oxford
- Town Square Test of a pro-Palestinian activist who reads the names of destroyed Palestinian villages in Tel Aviv