Oskar Hippe Quotes
A revolution [is] not a single act, but rather a chain of collisions and conflicts with the ruling class, which is never ready to submit itself to the will of a democratic majority, but rather defends its predominant position with all means at its disposal, with the help of the powers which the state has built up—the army, the police, the courts and the church
Oskar Hippe, 1900-*, German Revolutionist & Contemporary Historian, And Red is the Color of Our Flag
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Just before the outbreak of hostilities of WWI. The German Social Democratic Party was a minority party in Germany and the majority was very anxious to go to war.
Vladimir Lenin
In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. Corruption has plagued China for millennia. As can be seen by this quotation, Mao thought that a “people’s revolution” would end corruption and despite capital punishment for corruption under the Communist government, corruption still thrived. By the 21st century corruption was common among local Communist Party Officials despite national party and government attempts to obliterate it.
This was published after he died.
This is not strictly true although it was in many cases in Mises career. However many of the great scientists, inventers, artists, entrepreneurs, and writers have been very positive about the government of the time. Many even credited the government for enabling or assisting their achievement. Even in Nazi Germany there were a few scientists who admired the Hitler government. However, in America, the educational system which gave so money contributors to humanity their start and preparation and in many cases government funding or previous research or facilities were recognized as instrumental in the development of the innovation. Many of the artists and writers of the 1940s-1960s credited the New Deal for their development and opportunity to create many of their great contributions. Internet entrepreneurs who changed the world in the late 20th century all acknowledge the Federal Government role in developing and deploying if the Internet. And there are few Nobel Prize winners who do not acknowledge Federal Scientific Research Grants and previous government funded and sometimes conducted (like the Human Genome) research that helped with or made the contribution. Even contributions like the telegraph and the railroad depended in initial government funding to make their contribution. Private capital could not be found to take the risk of financing these radically new ideas.
