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Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht (German: [ˈliːpknɛçt] ( listen); 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 (paramilitary units formed of World War I veterans). Liebknecht and Luxemburg were summarily executed.

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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.

Capital, Class, Hands, Invasion, Struggle

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Aim, Life Is, Monarchy, Overthrow

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.

Believe, History, Mean, Opposites, Struggle

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

Law, Capitalism, Basic

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

Bring, Determination, Eugenics, Peoples, Self, Socialism

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

Defeat, Proletariat, Republic, Whole, World

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

Becoming, Degrees, Revolution, Revolutionary, Unprecedented, World

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

Germany, Teeth, Tongue, Unquestionable

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

Creation, Groups, Imperialism, States

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

Business, Nothing, Peace, War

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

Democracy, Party, Passive, Roles, Social

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

Countries, Country, Liberation, Long, War

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Capitalism, Peace, Socialism, War

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

Among, Class, Democracy, Sacred, Socialist, Struggle

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.

Dangerous, Evil, Kegs, Military, Powder

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

Eugenics, Free, Independent, Recognizes, Rights, Socialism

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

Down, Rumblings, Sleep, Sleeping, Soldier, Struggle

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

Blood, Crush, Ghouls, Imperialism, Militarism, Sucks

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.

Existence, National, People, States

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.

Assassination, Doe, German, Long, People