Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
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