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Karl Radek Quotes

Ukrainian - Politician | October 31, 1885 - May 19, 1939

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

Action Party Club Labour Debating

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.

Life Strength Time Long Long Time

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.

Country New Will Movement Disappear

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.

Party Country Signs Movement Absence

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

Life Masses General Material Views

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.

Ideas Socialism Wish Party Know

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

Socialism Development Workers Mass

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.

Home Political Class Propaganda

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

Party Independent Question Policy

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

Socialism Sometimes Independent Class

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