“They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it…
Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…
O their audacity!”
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Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…
O their audacity!”
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“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
― The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
― The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
“Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, as codewords, as a foil for their own display. Our revolution is, and should continue to be, the collective effort of revolutionaries to transform reality, to improve the concrete situation of the masses of our country.”
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“What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.”
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“And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself.”
― Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht: July 1916–October 1918
― Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht: July 1916–October 1918
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