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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

Blood Like Vampire Imperialism

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 True Fearless

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Karl Liebknecht

War Peace Socialism Capitalism

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

Karl Liebknecht

Group Creation Imperialism Any

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Karl Liebknecht

Alone Socialism Bring

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

People Long Will Own

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

History Struggle Believe Legend

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

Karl Liebknecht

Present Self-Defense National Wars

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Karl Liebknecht

Peace Democracy Struggle Class

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Karl Liebknecht

War Business Peace Capitalism

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

Great Evil Capitalism Dangerous

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Karl Liebknecht

Socialism Free Independent Equal

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

Karl Liebknecht

War Long Slavery Live

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Karl Liebknecht

Democracy Never Party Like

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Liebknecht

Life My Life Aim Monarchy

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Karl Liebknecht

Failure World Will Defeat

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Karl Liebknecht

New Tongue Teeth Right

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Karl Liebknecht

World Revolution More Degree

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.

Karl Liebknecht

Time Creation Present Task

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

Karl Liebknecht

Experience Forget Everything Through

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 Nation Free Existence

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.

Karl Liebknecht

War Women You People

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

Karl Liebknecht

Great Country Historical Yes

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Karl Liebknecht

You Law Capitalism Both

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