I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.