Leon Trotsky Quotes
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionist, The Russian Revolution, 1930
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The Mohawk, as well as the other Iroquois nations had several interesting democratic elements to their governance system some of which Benjamin Franklin tried to introduce into Pennsylvania and nationally. Particularly interesting is the European perspective of the minister who describes the de facto requirement for a type of plebiscite ratification in derogatory terms referring to the people as “the mob”. Some have argued that at the time the most democratic nation on earth was the Iroquois nation.
This was the classic, historical argument the Fascists made to justify their take over of democratic societies; the argument made by every military junta that illegally seized power; by Julius Caesar when he took control of Rome.
This quotation is very interesting in that many of Mrs. Roosevelt’s detractors constantly accused her of being a communist. They obviously had not read this column of any of the many where she shows antipathy to Communism.
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.
A bomb threat was received and cell phones might be used to detonate a bomb by remote control. However, no one in the vicinity of the BART system could use their cell phones for ANY purpose. The cell phone had begun to be a major tool of protesters organizing demonstration, and many people were concerned that the police might decide that an impending demonstration was a danger to public safety and prevent demonstrators from organizing or coordinating using mobile phones. Civil libertarians argued that the police should have to get a court order and show probably cause in order to shut down a public communications system.
Grigory Zinoviev was one of the original leaders of Revolutionary Russia and the early Communist Russian Government. The reason that this is a noteworthy quotation is that it shows that flip flops and hypocrisy seem to be present in all political systems, democratic as ours is as well as others.
This quotation is historically important because Davis clearly states the reason for the rebellion of the South. The anti-slave states were growing at a greater rate than the slave states and despite the greater voting power that a southerner had (a result of the 3/5 count of slaves for census purposes, and the Senate), the handwriting was on the wall and the majority of the United States was against the vicious institution of slavery and would make it unprofitable, impossible and/or illegal in the coming years. Southern slavery advocates saw this as a “tyranny of the majority” and therefore took up arms. In the early 20th century, apologists for the Southern rebellion tried to promote the idea that there were reasons other than slavery, but this quotation and the resolutions of the states who withdrew from the Union make it clear that the right to maintain slavery was the only significant issue. In that sense it was a States’ Rights issue, but the South was opposed to States’ Rights when it came to States refusing to return fugitive slaves when Federal Law required such under the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision.
After the many years of the Cold War attacking of Democracy, for many Russians the word conveys a bad image of their old enemy. For others, using the word reminds them that the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russians lost the cold war—an unpleasant memory. Yet many of the leaders of the Russian Federation very much wanted to democratize Russia. Bushmin had this very practical, albeit humorous, solution.
The House Rules Committee had evolved into a very powerful committee which controlled the debate rules of every piece of legislation that came before the House. This Congress—the worst in American History—passed fewer bills than any other. Those that ever got out of the Rules Committee had Rules that prohibited the minority from even offering amendments.
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He changed his views a great deal since this time when he was only 28 years old and the IRA Chief.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky (/ˈtrɒtski/), was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.
