Vladimir Lenin Quotes
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
Vladimir Lenin
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, The State and Revolution, 1917
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1st Baron Tweedsmuir
During the nineteenth century the “Majority” and the “silent majority” were references to the dead.
Some people read this part of the declaration as saying that if Muslims are in the majority and control the nation, there is no problem with violence. But if the Muslims are in the minority, they will likely be violent. Needless to say, this alarms most Western nations.
This claim has very often been true especially in South and Latin America, but in the United States generally it has been a delusion that the populists are in the majority although the general have been neglected and as a result they defy a powerful majority. Good examples of this are the Southern populist movements after the Civil War, the Populist Party, and the Populism of the second decade of the 21st century.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.