Polish-German "socialist, writer".
""Bloody Rosa" played a key role in the founding of the Polish Social Democratic Party and the Spartacus party, 1918."
"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."
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.
"Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. . . . And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?"
"Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement."
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Published Sources for
the above Quotations:
F:
"In "The Russian Revolution," by Paul Froelich, ch. 6, 1940, tr. 1961."
R:
""Prison notes," 1918; in "The Russian Revolution," ch. 6, 1922, tr. 1961."
A:
""The Crisis in the German Social Democracy," 1919."
N:
""The Crisis in the German Social Democracy," 1919."
K:
""The Crisis in the German Social Democracy," 1919."