Russia Quotes
In order to do away with the parasitic classes of society and organize the economic life of the country, universal labor duty is introduced.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State. In one of the great ironies, the Communist state forced people to work, while the capitalistic United States and most of the European Countries so this as an invasion of rights and even provided welfare and other assistance to those who did not work as well as to others.
Russia, Constituent Assembly, Declaration Of The Rights Of The Toiling And Exploited Peoples
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This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State.
Vladimir Lenin. Some anti-democratic, rabid opponents of communism used this quotation to argue that democracy was just a step on the way to Communism and thus democracy was a part of the communist conspiracy—an extreme form of Red Scare.
He was a major critic of Socialism but he did acknowledge that the Socialist Movement had made major contributions.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State.
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.
Note that although he was always portrayed as a dedicated communist, he was not fond of communism as a way of life. He thought that it was a fairer way of distributing the benefits of society however.
Russia, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country in Eurasia. At 17,075,200 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one eighth of Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 146.6 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the East, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.
