Karl Radek Quotes

"The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism."
- Karl Radek
(Related: Development, Socialism, Workers)

"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
(Related: Policy, Ideas, Party, Socialism)

"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
- Karl Radek
(Related: Life, Agitation)

"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
(Related: Country, Will)

"A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action."
- Karl Radek
(Related: Action, Party)

"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
(Related: Absence, Country, Party)

"Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy."
- Karl Radek
(Related: Policy, Party, Question)

"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
(Related: Home, Actions, Agitation, Class, English, Propaganda)

"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
(Related: Class, Socialism)