Karl Radek Quotes

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• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear…
• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home…
• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement…
• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
• Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it;…
• Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed…
• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

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