Karl Marx Quotes
Insurrection is an art.
Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German Economist & Socialist, Quoted by Souvarine, Stalin
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In 1993 Mooshood Abiola was the apparent victor in the Nigerian presidential election, but the election was `nullified' by the previous President and military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida. Abiola announced he would attempt to form a government anyway.
Thai society had been polarized and very large peaceful demonstrations (by the Yellow Shirts) were calling for the resignation of the government which although very corrupt and controlled by a single very rich family which had extensive support of the rural and poor (the Red Shirts). This quotation illustrates how a peaceful protest could lead to violence and terrorism. This Red Shirt leader, rather than lose, would lead violence in the streets like the Brown Shirts of the pre WWII Germany. If the violence fails, he was willing to go underground and become a terrorist movement.
The veiled threat of violence and disruption was a tactic that did not work.
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
