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Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

Chapter XI: Liberty Of The Press In The United States

In Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

Poetry and Prison

In Reviews

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Oscar Wilde, ed. Robert Ross and Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

Part 22

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

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James Boswell

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…