Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Georgi Plekhanov
Born: November 29, 1856
Died: May 30, 1918 (aged 61)
Bio: Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as "Marxist.
Known for:
- Selected Philosophical Works
- The Role of the Individual in History
- Anarchism and Socialism (1895)
- The Materialist Conception of History