Karl Liebknecht quotes

Karl Liebknecht was a renowned German Marxist revolutionary and politician. Born in 1871, Liebknecht played a crucial role in shaping the history of Germany. As a co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany, he fought against the oppressive ruling class during World War I. His tireless efforts to promote socialist ideas made him a prominent leader in the German Revolution of 1918-1919. Liebknecht's conviction and steadfastness inspired many, but his life was tragically cut short when he was assassinated in 1919. Today, his legacy lives on as a symbol of socialist resistance and working-class struggle. Explore more about Karl Liebknecht's extraordinary life and contributions to German history.

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.

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

- Karl Liebknecht

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

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.

- Karl Liebknecht

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

- Karl Liebknecht

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

- Karl Liebknecht

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

- Karl Liebknecht

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.

- Karl Liebknecht

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

- Karl Liebknecht

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.

- Karl Liebknecht