Tsarism

Liberal democracy is hardly what inspires current forces like Iranian Khomeinism, global jihadism, the caudillismo of Latin America, or the neo-tsarism of Russia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While America was trying to acquaint 25 million Iraqis with democracy, 144.5 million Russians fell under President Vladimir Putin's "managed democracy" -- tsarism leavened by state-manipulated plebiscites. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This view found its logical expression in the events of the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, when the orthodox Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party (RSDLP) handed the leadership of the mass movement to the bourgeois-liberal Kadets (Constitutional Democrats), who in turn were so frightened by the threat of social and economic instability that they ended up compromising with the forces of tsarism and reaction. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

Russian monarchist _emigrés_ who meet weekly in the basement of a certain church to pray for the restoration of tsarism will condescend to tell us how the names were chosen. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

Jews in Russia under tsarism, in Rumania, in Poland, and, to a less extent, in Germany under the Hohenzollern. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

I have said that the date of the appearance of this volume is important, and here is the reason: The overthrow of tsarism occurred in March, 1917. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

They are monarchists and reactionaries, their hope being the restoration of tsarism. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

It unites in a terrible synthesis all the worst agencies and methods of tsarism and of militarism. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

Intelligences are capable of making the deduction that, if the progressives in Russia can forget their quarrel with reaction for sake of our great common cause, they themselves might mitigate some of the severity of their anti-tsarism. ❋ Various (1898)

The institutions of civil society, suppressed by centuries of tsarism and obliterated by Soviet-era state brutality, remain weak. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His conception was without the ambiguity, relating to the class nature of the state power that would issue from the overthrow of tsarism, which characterized Lenin's formulation.

The working class would therefore have to lead an insurrection which would overthrow tsarism and establish a democratic republic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Trotsky went on to agree with Lenin that the Russian bourgeoisie was too timid to lead a democratic revolution, largely because the working class which had grown up around the new industries frightened the bourgeoisie with the spectre of a revolution which could sweep both tsarism and the bourgeoisie away in a single blow. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But these methods of struggle were as much directed against the bourgeoisie as they were against tsarism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet capitalist industry had developed to the point where tsarism was in a terminal crisis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Enthusiasm for neo-tsarism stops at the border, and the country’s only significant allies are Islamic despotisms, with which it has nothing in common but enmity toward the West. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"the Jews of Russia came up in a perfect phalanx" after the overthrow of tsarism. ❋ John Spargo (1921)