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“We have become so used to thinking of domestic politics in terms of party politics that we are inclined to forget that the conflict between [the party system and the council system] has always been a conflict between parliament, the source and seat of power of the party system, and the people, who have surrendered their power to their representatives.”
― Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

tags: democracy, politics

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“When Sagirashvili accused him of propagating anti-Menshevik lies in his Pravda, ‘he would grin in a seemingly good-natured way’ and explain, in a pre-Orwellian dictum, that a ‘lie always has a stronger effect than the truth. The main thing is to”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin

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“The Cheka, precursor of the OGPU, NKVD, KGB and today’s FSB, had absolute supralegal power over life and death. ‘In that case why should we bother with a People’s”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin

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“In a colossal bureaucracy run like a nepotistic village, Stalin showed himself a master of personal politics.180 He was the patron of these brutal tendencies but also their personification: he was right when he blasphemously declared in 1929 that ‘the Party has made me in its own image’. He and the Party had”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin

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“I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death. And the cause of this, is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already attained to; or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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