Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 310.
"Left Wing' Childishness", Pravda (May 1918).
1910s
Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 310.
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Wilhelm Reich book The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Preface to the Third Edition (August 1942)
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Context: In the strictly Marxist sense, there is not even in Soviet Russia a state socialism but a state capitalism. According to Marx, the social condition "capitalism" does not consist in the existence of individual capitalists, but in the existence of the specific "capitalist mode of production", that is, in the production of exchange values instead of use values, in wage work of the masses and in the production of surplus value, which is appropriated by the state or the private owners, and not by the society of working people. In this strictly Marxist sense, the capitalistic system continues to exist in Russia. And it will continue to exist as long as the masses of people continue to lack responsibility and to crave authority.
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification, by Gianni Toniolo, editor, Oxford University Press (2013) p. 59. Mussolini’s speech to the Chamber of Deputies on May 26, 1934.
1930s
Clay Shirky (1964) American technology writer
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008), p. 29
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Interview with Parker in Randall E. Parker(ed.), Reflection on the Great Depression (2002)
Jeffrey D. Sachs (1954) American economist
Climate, Welfare..., Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 15 October, 2018 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4892252.htm <br class="br">Context: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany – are the countries with the largest so-called social welfare states. They are the most prosperous. They have the best social conditions. They report the highest quality of life... They have a degree of equality that is unmatched in other parts of the world. People work very hard, thank you, and labour force participation of women is the highest in those countries. Why? Because the social welfare state also means that there’s child care available, that there is maternity leave for the first nine months or 12 months to a mother raising a new child. And father’s leave. But after that there is enough support that a mother can go to work. And people do want to go to work. The idea that this has taken away the work incentive is actually the opposite.
James Wilson (1742–1798) one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independe…
Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dallas) 419 (1793), at 455.
Salvador Allende (1908–1973) Chilean physician and politician
As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
3.3, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
(1917)