Karl Radek Quotes

• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

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• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

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• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

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• 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 to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

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• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

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• 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; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

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• Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

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• 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 in the country.

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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 all at once.

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• 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 in a manner unfavourable to it.

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Birth:	31st October, 1885
Death:	19th May, 1939
Nationality:	Ukrainian, Austrian, Polish
Profession:	Politician

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