Quotes About Reformists

Root'—radix—you radicals are all alike," Flandry said. "You think everything springs from one or two unique causes, and if only you can get at them, everything will automatically become paradisical. History doesn't go that way. Read some and see what the result of every resort to violence by reformists has been.

Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps.

The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

Prior to January 22, 1905, the revolutionary party of Russia consisted of a small handful of people, and the reformists of those days, derisively called us a 'sect'. Within a few months, however, the picture completely changed. The hundreds of revolutionary Social Democrats 'suddenly' grew into thousands; the thousands became leaders of between two and three million proletarians.

En ese contexto, a los jóvenes ultras como como yo hasta los comunistas nos parecían reformistas y por eso les decíamos 'rabanitos', rojos por fuera y blancos por dentro. Ellos, con una visión mucho más estratégica dictada desde Moscú, no estaban por el salto directo a la lucha armada, sino por la utilización del sistema democrático para destruirlo evolutivamente, sin prisa pero sin pausa.