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Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

— Rosa Luxemburg The Russian Revolution (1918)

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Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung (1920)

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

The Russian Revolution (1918)

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.

Junius Pamphlet (1916)

Socialism in life demands a complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois rule.

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