Natasha Love Bronfman Quotes

The entire speech was translated into Spanish and read to great applause to Latin American revolutionary regiments.

In 1786, many veterans of the American Revolution had still not yet been paid the promised wages for their military service by the new national government. The States however had imposed taxes on farms to fund the new state governments and pay the state’s war debts mostly to rich merchants. Many veterans could not pay the taxes and some were thrown into debtors’ prison, and others had their farms foreclosed. Led by Daniel Shays, a small group of Massachusetts men conducted a mini rebellion by closing local court houses and tried to take over the local state armory. The Governor put down the rebellion by force and the rebels were jailed. Samuel Adams, the former governor, recommended the death penalty (see {630527}), and several of the rebels were executed. Thomas Jefferson disagreed, via this famous quotation. This was one of the early crises of the new country and it was handled very poorly and unfairly.

In the election of 1800, the Jeffersonian republicans were pitted against the John Adams Federalists. The latter had seen the revolution as against the excesses of England and King George and not necessarily against the notion of a class society where government served the interests of the upper class—a political battle that is still with us to some extent. The Jewish religion generally recognizes no right of theocratic authority of one man over others with all to follow the laws of God, was theologically very republican. Rabbis were teachers and had no theological or civil authority. To Nones and many other Jews the Jeffersonian ideals were very close to their religious and cultural tradition and to the extent that there has been a party of the classes and a party of the masses, most Jews had gravitated to the latter with the exception of merchants, bankers and others whose economic interests were with the right of center party.

The first Russian Revolutionary Newspaper for Workers. Volodarsky shot to the top of the early revolutionary leadership. Most of the early Russian leaders were intellectuals and theoreticians. Valodarsky had much organizing experience and could communicate well with workers having been active in the Ladies Garment Workers Union and the American Socialist Party. His practical American approach was just what was needed and he became a key member of the leadership. He was so instrumental in the Bolshevik leadership that he was targeted for assassination along with Lenin and Uritsky. Lenin was only wounded. The others died. Goldstein was only 27 years old. Russia named bridges, schools and warships after him.

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.

Those who have fought against dictatorial governments for their basic human rights, found after victory and the overthrow of the dictator, that there was another force fighting for control which would deny citizens human rights based on a theocracy. They wanted the end of the dictator so they could use their interpretation of a religion as the excuse to deny all citizens basic human rights.

Lev Davidovich Bronstein

After the first Arab Spring revolution ousting Mubaric, a military dictator, the Egyptians elected a leader, Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi then abused his powers and tried to turn Egypt into a theocracy. Huge popular protests against the Muslim Brotherhood led to el-Sisi leading a military coup where the army took over the government. Then they held elections, el-Sisi resigned from the military, and ran for President and won by a large percentage even though a small proportion of the population voted.

He was in a Turkish Prison when he made this statement. Some of his more militant PKK followers rejected the statement assuming that it was coerced. Most agreed and were tired of a fight against an overwhelmg Turhish military and police. However the PKK militsntd, devclsred terrorists by the US and many other nations, killed 40,000 Turks including many Kurds who are and have been an ethnic minority in Turkey who have been treated very badly..