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

— Wilhelm Liebknecht

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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)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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