Exploiters Quotes
And as the leader of the exploited, after his revolution he became a dictator himself, albeit a very popular one amongst most Cubans.
Vladimir Lenin. One of the claimed benefits of Capital Punishment has always been the inhibition of others, but it turned out that it was never very effective at that. However, prevention was Lenin’s major objective so he ordered public hanging instead of shooting—the usual method of execution at the time. This infamous quotation started the new Russian government off on a horrible record of civil and human rights. The people hanged were not particularly guilty of any crime. They were just people who had gotten, or whose family was, rich under the Czar. The disregard for rule of law was most dramatically evidenced by this Lenin order. Needless to say, rich people the world over, saw a great threat to their lives from this new state wanting to export its philosophy.
She was right in the sense that women’s suffrage was most successful when the women—without regard to socio economic class—were involved, as were men, many of whom were strong feminists. Opposing women’s suffrage has always been many men and a substantial number of women. Making a major change in a society takes all the help and allies on can get. See {637761} for a similar Italian view. In the final analysis, it was the men who had to vote to give women the vote, so feminist men were particularly important.
