Socialist Movement Quotes
Surprising to most people who know of President Theodore Roosevelt’s general liberal views, his 4th son was an ultraconservative who founded and joined racist, anti-Semitic, right wing organizations, and to the distress of many in the family and without lent his name to many of the most extreme right wing causes and organizations.
The one area where communists were successful was in fighting for the Russian Homeland in WWII and the subsequent assault on Germany from the East. Most American military experts did not believe that the Russians could hold out. However with American weapons and supplies they proved most effective in causing German casualties. The Russians, however, had lost 22 million soldiers and civilians—a fearful cost. But the Communists proved they could lead a nation at war, and this success bought them 50 years of acceptance from the Russian people before their inability to manage a civilian society finally became clear and the Soviet Union collapsed.
Bath parties developed in several Arab countries: In Iraq and Syria they actually came to power. However, they were soon at each other’s throats and never became the unifying force in the Arab world that they had hoped to become at their founding. The quotation turned out to be a hope and a dream but not a realistic assessment of reality.
This is a fascinating quotation. The Fascist spokesperson, writing in an influential American Magazine, criticizes the previous Italian government for providing to the Italian masses what they demanded which resembled socialistic programs. He sees a government as apart from the masses, a detached entity which provides “favors” and “grants” to the people in order to buy their loyalty and support. He sees government not only as an entity separate and apart from the majority of people, but an entity that knows better than the people what is good for the nation and those people. Despite all his other rationalizations, that was exactly how Fascists viewed things. Given that, all of the Fascist actions followed.
