Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Lenin, Vladimir I. "The Right of Nations to Self-Determination." 1914. Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 20, Progress Publishers, 1964, p. 413.
Chile with help from San Martin had ejected the Spanish. O’Higgins, the Chilean leader had joined up with San Martin and served under his command. The sectional rivalry bothered men like Carrera. Instead of seeing all the South Americans fighting the Spanish as allies as O’Higgins did, Carrera and his brothers refused to join a government of unity and they and their troops were just as dictatorial and cruel as the Spanish had been. O’Higgins gave Indians and Blacks equal rights with whites which distressed the aristocratic Carrera’s. Finally the Carrera’s tried to set up their own government, and the new Chilean government disarmed their militia and executed two of the three Carrera brothers who were leading the militia troops who were little more than thieves and brigands.
Burke argued for England giving America much more freedom and self determination.
Paine was describing the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror.
The organization sent 2,100 volunteers to fight for South American independence from Spain.
William V, Prince of Orange, was in a very precarious position and might be deposed. Officially Harris and the British were supporting him and Harris was giving him money to firm up his regime, but their great fear was that the French would support and control the Patriot Revolutionary movement, then quite active. And William was very tentative in dealing with the growing Patriot revolutionary movement. Actually, to cover all eventualities, Harris was secretly aiding the Patriots as well. See {639752}.
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.
