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Karl Liebknecht
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Those who are defeated today shall be the victors of tomorrow. Because defeat serves as a lesson. The German proletariat still lacks revolutionary experience.
— In Spite of Everything! (1919)
Karl Liebknecht
German socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)
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Lived 1871–1919, aged 48
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He voted against his own party's war, called for revolution from a palace balcony, and died in a paramilitary bullet-storm eleven weeks later. The son of a socialist founder who pushed Germany's left past the point of return.
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Karl Liebknecht was born in Leipzig on 13 August 1871, son of SPD co-founder Wilhelm Liebknecht, and studied law and political economy. In 1907 he was imprisoned for a year after writing an anti-militarism pamphlet; by 1912 he sat in the Reichstag. When World War I began, he broke with the SPD over its support for the German war effort, co-founding the Spartacus League and demanding revolution — moves that got him expelled from the party in 1916 and jailed again for leading an anti-war demonstration. Released just before the November Revolution, he proclaimed Germany a "Free Socialist Republic…
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Karl Liebknecht
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The defeated of today, they will have learned.
— In Spite of Everything! (1919)
Karl Liebknecht
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The tide of events mount into the heavens – we are accustomed to being catapulted down from the peak into the depths.
— In Spite of Everything! (1919)
Karl Liebknecht
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Lay down your weapons, you soldiers at the front. Lay down your tools, you workers at home.
— Call for Revolution (1918)
Karl Liebknecht
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The main enemy of the German people is in Germany: German imperialism, the German war party, German secret diplomacy.
— The Main Enemy is at Home (1915)
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