Czarism

But then what is this principle of Czarism, which is not a submission to divine right, but which causes one man to sustain, perhaps to place, another in a position which puts his own life at the mercy of the other's mere caprice?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

Russian Government, the Russian bureaucracy, the Russian political system, all that Goldscheid concentrates into the term "Czarism," severely alone.

Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

And as I wrote in a San Francisco Chronicle piece about American Czarism way back at the beginning of 2009, I'm someone who believes in democracy - so I'm not inclined to cheer at anyone's disenfranchisement (I know, that sets me apart from the cynical and partisan DC chattering class).

David Sirota: Why It's Bad News That the Health Care Conference Committee Will Be Held in Secret 2010

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: David Sirota: America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy 2009

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U.S. Moving Toward Czarism, Away From Democracy 2009

For twenty years the various tendencies of Russian social democracy had engaged in an unresolved debate over all the conditions that might bear on the overthrow of Czarism — the weakness of the bourgeoisie; the preponderance of the peasant majority; and the potentially decisive role of a proletariat which was concentrated and combative but which constituted only a small minority of the population.

The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

For twenty years the various tendencies of Russian social democracy had engaged in an unresolved debate over all the conditions that might bear on the overthrow of Czarism — the weakness of the bourgeoisie; the preponderance of the peasant majority; and the potentially decisive role of a proletariat which was concentrated and combative but which constituted only a small minority of the population.

2009 October 2009

"One of the best sources of information on the financing of the Bolshevik Revolution is 'Czarism and the Revolution' by an important White Russian General named Arsene de Goulevitch who was founder in France of the Union of Oppressed Peoples."

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories 2008

So now, it's Czarism Light, less oppressive and with fewwer questions.

Archive 2004-09-01 2004

Czarism by its last decades was corrupt and efficient.

The Grand Failure: The Birth & Death of Communism in the 20th Century 1989