Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 12, Ideology: Religion
Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 33
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 12, Ideology: Religion
Bernard Lewis (1916–2018) British-American historian
Books, Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis (2006)
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
regarding Occupy Wall Street protests
2010s, 2011
“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”
Andrei Grechko (1903–1976) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse" - Page 58 - by Stephen Kotkin - History - 2001
“All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
Aleksandr Dugin (1962) Russian political scientist
Aleksandr Dugin — The Basics of Geopolitics (1997)
Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 195
“Lenin’s The State and Revolution is an authoritarian parody of their ideas.”
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
Introduction : The Libertarian Tradition
Communalism (1974)
Context: People who believe in libertarian communism can be grouped roughly under three general theories, each with its old masters, theoreticians, leaders, organizations, and literature. First there are the anarchists in a rather limited variety: communist-anarchists, mutualists, anarcho-syndicalists, individual anarchists, and a few minor groups and combinations. Second, the members of intentional communities, usually but by no means always religious in inspiration. The words “communalism” and “communalist” seem to have died out and it would be good to appropriate them to this group, although the by now too confusing word “communist” actually fits them best of all. Third, there are the Left Marxists, who prior to 1918 had become a widespread movement challenging the Social Democratic Second International. It was to them the Bolsheviks appealed for support in the early days of their revolution. Lenin’s The State and Revolution is an authoritarian parody of their ideas. They in turn have called it “the greatest pre-election pamphlet ever written: ‘Elect us and we will wither away’.” Against them Lenin wrote Leftism: An Infantile Disorder. There is a story that, when the Communist International was formed, a delegate objected to the name. Referring to all these groups he said: “But there are already communists.” Lenin answered: “Nobody ever heard of them, and when we get through with them nobody ever will.” Today these ideas are more influential than they ever have been.
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary
The Three Phases of National Reconstruction (1918)
“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The War of the End of the World
Source: The War of the End of the World