Karl Liebknecht Quotes

Karl Liebknecht — German Politician born on August 13, 1871, died on January 15, 1919

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 killed... (wikipedia)

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

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

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

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

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 Quotes

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