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Wilhelm Liebknecht Quotes

1826–1900 Germany

Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht (29 March 1826 – 7 August 1900) was a German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). His political career was a pioneering project combining Marxist revolutionary theory with practical, legal political activity.

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Socialism without democracy is pseudo-socialism, just as democracy without socialism is pseudo-democracy.

We socialists are one nation to ourselves, – one and the same international nation in all the lands of the earth.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

If the way to hell is paved with good intentions, the way to defeat is paved with illusions.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

Socialism cannot conquer nor redeem the world if it ceases to believe upon itself alone.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

We shall never go wrong if we do what is opposed to the interests of our enemy.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

The class struggle tactics is not only more correct in principle; it is also more practical and successful than compromise tactics.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

We recognize no infallible Pope, not even a literary one.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

This is not an end, but only a means to an end.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

The highest triumph of Bismarckian politics carried its downfall and bankruptcy within it.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

Distrust was counted as a democratic virtue, and over-confidence as a democratic vice.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

The social democracy of Germany must fulfill the role of champions of political freedom. The task of uniting the struggle for economic independence with that for political liberty has fallen upon the German laboring class.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

It was not possible by any allurements to take from the workingmen the recognition of the inseparability of socialism from democracy and of democracy from socialism.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

This foundation of the class struggle, which Marx – and this is his immortal service – has given to the modern labor movement, is the main point of attack in the battle which the bourgeois political economy is waging with socialism.

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilhelm Liebknecht (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.