Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Source: Reform or Revolution (1899), Ch. 7
Source: Gulzarilal Nanda: A Life in the Service of the People, p.32.
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Source: Reform or Revolution (1899), Ch. 7
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Introduction (p. vi)
The Warlord of the Air (1971)
Tom R. Burns (1937) American sociologist
Source: Systems theories (2006), p. 2.
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Rampart Institute, p.411
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
“Nazi political hegemony in the end prevented German capitalists form acting as capitalists.”
Richard Overy (1947) British historian
Source: War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994), p. 94
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) Martiniquais politician
Letter to Maurice Thorez resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956
Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician
Chap. V, The Period of Dictatorship <br class="br">"Hitlerism and Social Democracy" (1934) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/hitler/index.htm
Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China
Cited by António Caeiro in Pela China Dentro (translated), Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004. ISBN 972-20-2696-8
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5
Context: Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the "petty" – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for "paupers"!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.