Sublime

FDR’s immediate staff was totally devoted to him and militantly nonideological. Their loyalty was personal. They avoided policy debates and would have followed the president in whatever direction he chose.

Rey Diaz was the current president of Venezuela, which, under his leadership, had aptly demonstrated Tyler’s theory about the rise of small countries. He carried forward the Bolivarian Revolution instigated by Hugo Chavez: In a contemporary world ruled by capitalism and market economics, he promoted in Venezuela what Chavez called Socialism of the

The man that the Times article reported as being both “sadder” and “wiser” than when he was first imprisoned went on to construct one of humanity’s darkest regimes, ignited a war that killed tens of millions of people, and engineered the world’s first program of mechanized genocide, making him the last person a reader of the Times should think “was

He carefully monitored debates and discerned the ideological rifts between his fellow Whigs and the Democrats.

Vito Marcantonio

Mais entre ces deux événements la différence est de taille : alors que les bolcheviks se trouvaient à la pointe du combat contre Kornilov, le KPD prend position le premier jour contre la grève : il s’agit d’une confrontation entre « deux ailes de la contre-révolution », et le prolétariat révolutionnaire « ne lèvera pas le petit doigt pour soutenir

Lenin’s model of revolution has proven frighteningly durable. His goal—not to improve the state machine, but to smash it and all its institutions—has been embraced by many twenty-first-century populists.