Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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