Janos Kadar Quotes
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
Kádár, János. "Radio Appeal by Janos Kadar, October 24, 1956." National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe: A Selection of Documents on Events in Poland and Hungary, February-November, 1956, edited by Paul E. Zinner, Columbia University Press, 1956, p. 405.
The word “smashing” is a literal translation from the Khmer language. It is not used in the metaphorical sense as we are used to. To save money, arms, bullets and resources the Khmer Rouge method of execution was to “smash” the victim’s head in with a shovel or other implement. This slogan told people literally to murder their political enemies in this brutal way.
Although the Nazis railed against the Communists & Socialists, the potential opposition they feared the most was the middle class. See also {582966}.
Francisco Ascaso, Buenaventura Durruti, Juan Garcia Oliver, Aurelio Fernandez, Ricardo Sanz, Gregorio Jover, Antonio Ortiz and Antonio Martinez "Valencia
Vladimir Lenin
And as the leader of the exploited, after his revolution he became a dictator himself, albeit a very popular one amongst most Cubans.
This to some is a surprising statement for a Marxist, but Marxists have a wide range of political opinions just like Republicans, Christians, and Factor Owners do.
For this and other speeches Debs had unconstitutionally been arrested and jailed for opposing American entry into World War I and the Draft. He was later pardoned by President Warren G. Harding.
Just before the outbreak of hostilities of WWI. The German Social Democratic Party was a minority party in Germany and the majority was very anxious to go to war.
There were massive strikes in Italy. These strikes began in the engineering factories and soon spread to railways, road transport, and other industries. The strikers, however, did more than just occupy their workplaces, they seized them for themselves. Soon 500,000 strikers were at work, producing for themselves. See {616351} for a description. The question was what next. Malatesta and others recommended that they go on and take over the government and not just try and have better labor conditions and factory operations. He warned that the capitalists and middle class bourgeoisie had been so frightened by the successful national strike that they would even ally with the Fascists who they did not like either. That is how Mussolini and his Fascists came to power.
János József Kádár was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, His 32-year term went through two stages. First (1956–1962), he was a dictator who imposed an iron-fisted rule of Communist Party terror on Hungary. In stage two (1962–1988) he became a champion of liberal communism who focused on economic reform and softening of police state methods. Declining health and declining political mastery, led to his retirement in 1988.
