The modern versions of Communism are really kind of the brainchild of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

Many see North Korea as a communist state.

That is not right!

Emma Goldman I think I'm Emma Goldman

I forgot the name.

Marcus, sire.

His name was Marx.

It's not violence and war, it's not race, it's not gender, it's not Marxism, it's not Nazism.

Remember Socrates, of Lenin, Hitler...

And indeed, this is a great example, and the reason for the Industrial Revolution and efficiency.

Do not forget that fascism, communism, capitalism or other isms are all monetary systems.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names.

Communist, Nazi, fascist ...

Three times I have received Order of Lenin.

All she could do was parrot a garbled abbreviation in a language she didn't even understand.

Communism, capitalism...

Now, as many of you may remember, the Red Brigades was a terrorist, Marxist organization which was very active in Italy from the 1960s until the mid 1980s.

He goes to the Federal Polytech in Zurich.

I wear the Order of Lenin on my rump.

The Limits of Democracy

The constitution's gone.

(Laughter)

Soviet Union was Communist and it was totalitarian. Communism and democracy are not necessarily things that go against each other.

But the Soviet Union had neither a capitalist system nor a democracy.

So what does this tell us?

Democracy Comes Second

Kuwaiti Democracy in Action

But, we can escape from this trap, these pincers, I think.

And what do we teach in these schools?

Is that democracy?

Aren't those just the foundations of xenophobia and authoritarianism and Puritanism?

Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx?

If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch, or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch.

I thought this was a democracy and I thought the democracy is based to the collective will of the people.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream.

You a vegetarian?

And equality?

But this is a democracy, Harvey.

I believe in democracy.

Shoot, bitch! Democracy's at stake.

Huh? Democracy time, y'all.

Bruno Giussani Markus, we should fly it once more.

And I think the getaway message from that would be that Islam, despite some of the skeptics in the West, has the potential in itself to create its own way to democracy, create its own way to liberalism, create its own way to freedom.

I am on the side of democracy.

It matters because this is a democracy.