ellauri063.html on line 94: … roach has been adopted by various political movements and ideologies, including Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, Chavezism (as we have seen in Venezuela of late), Social Democracy, and conspiratorial Blanquism —on that, follow the link below.
ellauri119.html on line 656: I recall reading her claim that the Founding Fathers explicitly rejected only one form of government - Democracy! Democracy!? Really?, I thought. There is no way that could be true. But reading the Federalist Papers, there it was.
ellauri146.html on line 688: In a review of 1836 Poe referred to the “bigoted lover of abstract Democracy” and appealed to Americans to divert their minds “from that perpetual and unhealthy excitement about the forms and machinery” of government to a greater care of the results of government-“the happiness of a people.”
ellauri164.html on line 232: A pupil of William "Will to Believe" James, whose Essays in Radical Empiricism he edited (1912), Perry became one of the leaders of the New Realism movement. Perry argued for a naturalistic theory of value and a New Realist theory of perception and knowledge. He wrote a celebrated biography of William James, which won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and proceeded to a revision of his critical approach to natural knowledge. An active member among a group of American New Realist philosophers, he elaborated around 1910 the program of new realism. However, he soon dissented from moral and spiritual ontology, and turned to a philosophy of disillusionment. Perry was an advocate of a militant democracy: in his words "total but not totalitarian". Puritanism and Democracy (1944) is a famous wartime attempt to reconcile two fundamental concepts in the origins of modern America. Durkheim oli taas aivan oikeassa: sodan aikana vedetään moraalin korsetinnauhat kireälle.
ellauri219.html on line 813: But the States, prodded on by its own exceptionalist rhetoric, said they were different. That they were making the world Safe For Democracy. That they desired Liberty for All. And when the US acted as any imperial power must, and did some (well, a lot of) grubby things, there were a lot of outsiders who wanted to believe—and who felt betrayed. And they’ve held the kind of grudge against America and its optimistic, American Dream mass culture, that they did not hold against previous imperial powers. Aw, who am I kidding, of course they did.
ellauri219.html on line 822: Because he knew that this venture was not the Safe for Democracy mission that Wilson had in mind, and that stuck in his craw. It stuck in his craw, because he too wanted to believe that America had been making the world Safe for Democracy. But we loyally sent our troops in anyway, under the banner of the Treaty of Westphalia, not Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
ellauri270.html on line 587: 17."Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization."
ellauri352.html on line 640: Vuonna 1831 hän sai ministeriöltä passituxen tutustumaan Yhdysvaltain rangaistuslaitoxeen kalterien sisäpuolelta, mikä muodosti hänen passinsa Yhdysvaltoihin ja kypsytti päätöxen, mitä pitää parhaana saatavilla olevana esimerkkinä demokratiasta. Tästä lähes kymmenen kuukautta kestäneestä oleskelusta hän veti kirjan From Democracy in America, analyysin demokraattisesta järjestelmästä yleensä (sen hyveistä, riskeistä ja dynamiikasta) ja sen erityisen amerikkalaisen kuvauksen, joka oli valtava menestys, kun se julkaistiin vuonna 1835. ja 1840. Tämä johti siihen, että hänet valittiin moraali- ja valtiotieteiden akatemiaan vain 33-vuotiaana ja sitten Ranskan akatemiaan 36 -vuotiaana. Hän asettui ehdolle vuoden 1839 parlamenttivaaleissa ja valittiin Valognesin varajäseneksi Manchessa, jossa Tocquevillen perheen linna sijaitsi ja jossa hänet valittiin uudelleen Louis-Napoléon Bonaparten vallankaappaukseen asti joulukuussa 1851. Napsuista Alexis ei perustanut.
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 344: Democracy is just a load of bullshit, it is just a cover for the criminal nature of the United States of America. But I'm hoping for the Seven Days In May scenario, where sane people will take over the US, military people. They will imprison the Jews, they will execute several hundred thousand of them, at least. And they will bring home all the troops to the US. And ultimately the white man should leave the US, the black man should go back to Africa, the white back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians who lived there for, who knows how many, ten of thousands of years. They kept the land crystal clean. It was a beautiful country when the white man came. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
xxx/ellauri281.html on line 735: Robert Michels Political Parties A Sociological Study of the Oligarchic Tendencies of Modern Democracy First was published in German in 1911 then Italian in 1912 with the authors additions it was translated into English by Eden and Cedar Paul in 1915 In 2001 their edition was published on the internet by Batoche Books Canada.
xxx/ellauri281.html on line 737: Democracy leads to oligarchy, Michels wrote, and necessarily contains an oligarchical nucleus. It is indisputable that the oligarchical and bureaucratic tendency of party organization is a matter of technical and practical necessity. It is the inevitable product of the very principle of organization. The formation of oligarchies within the various forms of democracy is the outcome of organic necessity, and consequently affects every organization.
11