Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Radek

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Ukrainian politician Karl Radek.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Karl Berngardovich Radek was a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and an international Communist leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.

Ukrainian - Politician | October 31, 1885 - May 19, 1939

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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

Karl Radek

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

Karl Radek

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Karl Radek

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

Karl Radek

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

Karl Radek

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

Karl Radek

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Karl Radek

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

Karl Radek

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

Karl Radek

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

Karl Radek

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Radek

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