Democratic movement

Conservative sentiment in England was also seriously disturbed, at this time, by the success of the American Revolution, and still more by the development of democratic spirit and the antichurch sentiment excited by the rise and progress of the French Revolution. As Priestley had favored the cause of the American colonists, so he was sympathetic with the ideals which dominated the rise and earlier development of the French revolutionary movement. The government party in England was aroused against Priestley, especially by his caustic reply to Edmund Burke s attack on the French Revolution in 1790. As Burke had been an outspoken advocate of the cause of the American colonists before the American Revolution, Priestley,... 

Ibid., p, 114. Lenin is here referring to the Social Democrats in Germany, whom he regards as far more advanced than their Russian counterparts. See also p. 116, where Lenin asserts, "No movement can be durable without a stable organization of leaders to maintain continuity. This issue was debated anew in practically every socialist movement. We see it in the writings of the Italian Communist... 

The animal welfare and animal rights movements can both be seen as part of a centuries-old movement toward pan-species democratization - toward the view that nonhuman species have a fundamental place in nature and a basic right to lead their own lives. 

Nyden, P. W. (1985). Democratizing organizations A case study of a union reform movement. American Journal of Sociology, 90, 1119-1203. 

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