Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 August 1871
CountryGermany
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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.
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
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.
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.