Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

About Karl Liebknecht:

 Karl Liebknecht 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 killed.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameKarl Liebknecht
  • DescriptionGerman socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany
  • BornJanuary 13, 1871
  • DiedJanuary 15, 1919
  • CountryGermany; German Empire
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Revolutionary