Henri Lefebvre Quotes
A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential
Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1991, p. 54.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Tragically, the world paid a terrible price for the German upheaval before the better world finally emerged.
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Vladimir Lenin. This statement was key in developing a great fear of the Communists by most of the capitalistic world. Most people in the West had seen that the conditions were so terrible in Russia that a revolution might be a good thing for the Russians—even a Communist revolution. But when the new Russian Communist Leader made this statement, most countries then regarded the Russian Communist party as a potential menace and threat to their stability.
Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectics, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books and three hundred articles. He founded or took part in the founding of several intellectual and academic journals such as Philosophies, La Revue Marxiste, Arguments, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Espaces et Sociétés.
