Karl Liebknecht Quotes

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• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the…
• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
• Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
• To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are…
• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
• Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs…
• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the…
• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless…
• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the…
• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

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