Karl Liebknecht famous quotes

07-18-2025

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#War #Capitalism
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Law #Capitalism
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Country #War #Long
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Life Is #Aim #Monarchy
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Groups #Creation #Imperialism
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.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Military #Evil #Kegs
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 people will continue.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Long #People #Doe
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.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Struggle #Hands #Class
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 fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Struggle #Sleep #Soldier
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#World #Republic #Defeat
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Degrees #World #Revolution
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Party #Democracy #Roles
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.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#People #States #Existence
The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Teeth #Germany #Tongue
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Struggle #Class #Democracy
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#War #Socialism #Capitalism
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.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Believe #Struggle #Mean
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Determination #Self #Socialism
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Independent #Eugenics #Rights
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
-- Karl Liebknecht

#Crush #Ghouls #Blood

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