The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.