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“A severe-looking man who always wore a stiff collar and dark clothes, he was a passionate revolutionary to whom work meant self-abasement before the capitalist class.”

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“The road to the new society had lengthened and become overgrown sadly since 1904. The working class in many thousands had been shown its errors in thinking, but persisted in them. Very well: the working class must have the rigours of capitalism, and if the rigours were harsh - it serves them right for not accepting socialism.”

Capitalism Stupidity Working Class Spgb

Author:Robert Barltrop

“What is most remarkable and disquieting about this dangerous organisation (SPGB) is that the members are unquestionably higher-grade working-men of great intelligence, respectability and energy. They are, as a whole, the best informed socialists in the country, and would make incomparable soldiers, or desperate barricadists. As revolutionaries they deserve no mercy; as men, they command respect.”

Revolutionaries Spgb

Author:Robert Barltrop

“If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep.”

Socialism Labour Rosa Luxemburg German Social Democracy Reform Or Revolution

Book:Reform or Revolution

Source: Reform or Revolution

“Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as a result of economic necessity - and the comprehension of that necessity - leading to the suppression of capitalism by the working masses. And this necessity manifests itself above all in the anarchy of capitalism.”

Socialism Labour Rosa Luxemburg German Social Democracy Reform Or Revolution

Book:Reform or Revolution

Source: Reform or Revolution

“The greatest lesson for democracies to learn is for the majority to give to the minority a full, free opportunity to present their side of the case, and then for the minority, having failed to win a majority to their views, gracefully to submit and to recognize the action as that of the entire organization, and cheerfully to assist in carrying it out until they can secure its repeal.”

Politics Democracy Political Philosophy Political Science Parliamentarism

Book:Parliamentary Law

Source: Parliamentary Law

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.”

Government Separation Of Powers Us Presidents Executive Powers

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.”

Power Democracy Tyranny American Government Separation Of Powers

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.”

Military Separation Of Powers

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

Government Separation Of Powers Checks And Balances

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

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