Democratic Union (Russian: Демократический Союз) is a Russian liberal party led by a controversial Russian female politician Valeriya Novodvorskaya. The orientation has been radically liberal and pro-reform. The party charter specifies the main goals of the organization (among others) as follows:
- popularization of liberal ideas
- strengthening the rule of law
- supporting liberal reforms
- support and protection of private property
- fighting against occurrence of communism, nazism, fascism, socialism.
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“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)