German - Politician | August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Karl Liebknecht
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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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.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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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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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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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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