Friedrich Ebert Quotes

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution

The revolution is on the verge of winning. We cannot crush it but perhaps we can strangle it …. Perhaps it will be possible to divert the revolutionary energies into the legal channels of an election campaign.

In Prussia it is only kings who make revolutions.

We only need one, in the same way that Lenin only needed one.

The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

The socialist proletariat rejects any responsibility for the events being brought about by a blinded, a maddened ruling class …. All responsibility falls to the wielders of power today! It is "to be or not to be!" World-history is the world-court!

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

Revolutions of state, many times, make way for new institutions and forms; and often determine in either setting up some tyranny at home, or bringing in some conquest from abroad.

Bolshevism must live and die of itself, without pressure from abroad.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.