Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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