Karl Liebknecht Quotes

• Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

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• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

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• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

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• Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

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• 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 peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

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• Through this experience we have been warned – learn everything, don’t forget anything!

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• This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

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• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

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• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

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• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

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• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

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• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

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• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

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• 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 pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

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• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

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• 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 that are the great European military powers.

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• In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

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• 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 expression of the other.

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• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

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Birth:	13th August, 1871
Death:	15th January, 1919
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Politician

About

Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. He is best known for his opposition to World War I in the Reichstag and his role in the Spartacist uprising of 1919. The uprising was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were murdered.

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