“The West’s adversarial political system, in which all manner of decisions were made by majority rule, was little more than a refined version of civil war, replacing one form of coercion (fighting) with another (voting).” DemocracyVotingPolitical ActionOrganizingSocial Capital Book:To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Source: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
“The political apathy that KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastnyi feared was spreading across Soviet society in the 1960s was now treated as an asset by his successor, Vladimir Putin.” ApathyAuthoritarianism Book:To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Source: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement