William James Linton Quotes
Europe is filled with the very elements of social combustion.
The English at the time ( and some even today) did not consider England part of Europe.
William James Linton, 1812-1897, English Engraver & Poet, Writer, and Political Reformer, Founder of the People's International League, Quoted in W. J. Linton: Radical Artisan, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/hudson/people.html
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This is also true in modern politics where almost all petitions and demonstrations are also the apprehension of loss of rights. This is true even when parties contest as in 2011 where the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement both were outraged that they were losing their rights, and in a different ways, both were.
Louis Napoleon had seized control of France and had very little popular support amongst the aristocracy and middle class. However, the Socialists leading the uprisings frightened them more than Louis Napoleon as the Socialists had the support of the peasants who resented the abuses of the aristocracy and many of the middle class. This was true class warfare and not at all what was possible in the United States when American conservatives would claim “class warfare” when there was a move for more progressive taxation. In Europe, class warfare really meant death and destruction, so for many who knew the history, the claim of “class warfare” was frightening and a large part of the “Red Scare” in the United States.
By producing growth and an increasing standard of living and universal education, capitalism’s citizens have the time, education, and resources to protest and produce social unrest. However, that assumes that there is also a democratic state. For Schumpeter and many others, capitalism and democracy go hand in hand, but many point to historical examples of one developing faster than the other.
1st Viscount Millner. A gold strike was causing many British subjects to immigrate to the Transvaal, but the Boers did not want the newcomers to be able to vote and dilute their power. Meanwhile the two cultures--British and Boer--had very different values and differed especially on how they should deal with the indigenous Blacks. The Boers would not reform in the Transvaal as the British wanted, and the Boer War ensued.
The demonstration actually had 300,000 people including 20 different bands, humongous for the day.
William James Linton was an English-born American wood-engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction.
