Collective Liberation Quotes
Babeuf led a faction of French revolutionists who thought that the revolution had become to hierarchical and had substituted a dictatorship of certain citizens for the dictatorship of the King. He was arrested and executed by the hierarchy he was trying to replace in what has become known as the “conspiracy of the equals.”
Vladimir Lenin. This is a very important historical quotations. It was made by Lenin soon after the 1917 Russian Revolution and surprisingly to most he declared that the exporting of the Communist Revolution was more important than the national interest of communist Russia. Many Western nations, including the U. S. sent troops to part of Russia on various pretexts and it appeared to many that the West was ganging up against Russian Communism and interfering with their internal affairs. However, in effect, the new Russian state, with the attitude expressed by this quotation, was declaring a type of revolutionary war on all the capitalist nations who saw this fledgling mess of a country as a potential threat. They were right.
See {638747} for a similar view from a later worldwide revolutionary figure.
In 1938 he was executed on trumped up changes by fellow Communist Party members:
In 1967 Carmichael left SNCC and joined the more militant Black Panther movement adn organization. But two years later, he became disillusioned with them and emigrated to Guinea in West Africa to promote African Unity and socialism. He was not very successful in in achieving either of these objectives in Africa.
