Vladimir Lenin Quotes

Vladimir Lenin. One of the claimed benefits of Capital Punishment has always been the inhibition of others, but it turned out that it was never very effective at that. However, prevention was Lenin’s major objective so he ordered public hanging instead of shooting—the usual method of execution at the time. This infamous quotation started the new Russian government off on a horrible record of civil and human rights. The people hanged were not particularly guilty of any crime. They were just people who had gotten, or whose family was, rich under the Czar. The disregard for rule of law was most dramatically evidenced by this Lenin order. Needless to say, rich people the world over, saw a great threat to their lives from this new state wanting to export its philosophy.

Although he was a Marxist, he was also a democrat. He was one of the first leftists to criticize the Russian Revolution. The letter was widely published. There were few left wing intellectuals who would take Lenin on at the time but Gorter was one.

Lev Davidovich Bronstein

The Whites were the old nobility and conservatives who, after the Czar had been deposed, fought a civil war for control of Russia against the Reds—the Bolsheviks. The Whites were allied with the Cossacks, a particularly vicious, and cruel groups of traditional cavalry who previously had done much of the Czar’s dirty work. They were responsible for most of the Anti-Semitic pogroms, and their affiliation with the Whites pushed most Jewish Russians to the Reds.

In a Chicago labor demonstration at the Haymarket a bomb killed several policemen. Fisher and his colleagues were anarchists who had printed a pamphlet the previous day advocating the demonstration and urging violence against the authorities in retaliation for the police-caused death of demonstrators the day previous. When the police were killed, Fisher and his colleagues were arrested, tried, and convicted of murder even though they were not even present at the scene. Several, including Fisher, were hanged before Governor Altgeld commuted the sentences of the other Haymarket “conspirators.” See {43713}

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin. The two American leftists had been deported from America. Lenin and the Russian leadership was delighted to have these two famous radicals, and they thought they would find Russia wonderful. But soon the Americans discovered that the freedoms that they found so critical did not, and would not, exist in Communist Russia. After two years, they left Russia for Canada and Europe where they wrote and castigated Communist Russia to the delight of their old American enemies and the shock of many of their old American friends. Lenin was glad to be rid of them. They were as much of a threat to his regime as they were to the United States of the time.

This is a very important historical, political quotation. The conservatives have since the Russian Revolution conflated socialism and communism. However, here in 1932 the leader of the American Socialist Party had already described the Communist Revolution in Russia as a failure of founding an acceptable modern state. Nonetheless, even into the 21st century many conservatives describe Thomas as a Communist. See {626692} for his distinction between Communism and Socialism. The difficulty of modern nation building was explained by Thomas and others but was really not accepted until the many attempts of the early 21st century, some supported by America like Iraq and Afghanistan and the Balkans and others like the “Arab Spring.” Then his early wisdom on this point became more appreciated.

Stalin was then only 26 years old. This was more than a decade BEFORE the Russian Revolution and Stalin was a young left wing revolutionary planning how to bring about a revolution and how the society should operate thereafter. He was then much the youthful, intellectual, Georgian idealist.

Vladimir Lenin. This is a very important historical quotations. It was made by Lenin soon after the 1917 Russian Revolution and surprisingly to most he declared that the exporting of the Communist Revolution was more important than the national interest of communist Russia. Many Western nations, including the U. S. sent troops to part of Russia on various pretexts and it appeared to many that the West was ganging up against Russian Communism and interfering with their internal affairs. However, in effect, the new Russian state, with the attitude expressed by this quotation, was declaring a type of revolutionary war on all the capitalist nations who saw this fledgling mess of a country as a potential threat. They were right.

Zenzinov was often a critic of the Bolsheviks.

The term “class warfare” was in the early 21st century used by conservatives whenever anyone criticized the rich or advocated raising taxes on the rich. These conservatives had little concept of what class warfare really is and was. This quotation illustrates the real class warfare which existed on a few occasions in American history.

Vladimir Lenin. This galvanized the October Revolution which put the Bolsheviks in power ousting the Kerensky government.

In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 white men, women and children. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find.

The reason for the initial total killing policy was that the slaves had no arms. Their plan was for a small band to attack a plantation, seize the owner’s arms, free his slaves enlarging the “army”, and going on to the next plantation. The reason for the total killing of the whites was to prevent a survivor running to the authorities and mounting a counter attack on the slaves while they still had few guns. The plan was to form an armed slave army and then fight a conventional battle. Ironically, one white who was wounded and spared actually did reach the authorities and Turner’s band was attacked before they had sufficient weapons to put up a serious fight.