“Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.” TryingCountryHandsRunningLeftAfghanistanRegimesAlliancesPuppetsKabulWarlords Author:Ted Rall
“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.” IfsIdeasPoliticalLeftSocialTownsArchitectureRegimesDictatorModernismPolitical SystemsLeft And RightSocial GoodTotalitarian RegimesClassicism Author:Leon Krier
“The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.” PeopleLeftCrimeCommittedSignificantRegimesMinorsVietnameseRougeKhmer Rouge Author:James Donald
“How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesLawValuesFatherLeftUnitedMillionsUnited StatesForeverDemocracyWrittenGenerationsUnionsTechniqueTrialsTortureBritainCampsSovietRegimesSolitaryNaziSoviet UnionFbiRule Of LawConfinementDetentionSolitary Confinement Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.” WarStatesLeftAcceptingColdWingsDemocraticFaultsReformRegimesCold WarRight WingLeft WingTotalitarian State Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick
“Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.” PersonsProblemValuesLeftMoralDemocracyGroupsAuthorityDemocraticExpectedDebateGenuineRationalRegimesRulersVigilanceCooperativesLegal SystemTheocracyMoral Authority Author:Mario Bunge