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“Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.”

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Friedrich Ebert was a German politician born on February 4, 1871, and died on February 28, 1925. He was the first President of Germany, known for his moderate political stance and his role in promoting the democratization process in Germany. more

“What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.”

Humans Children Made Two Use Greater Female Machines Paid Competition Workers Males Following Factors Attractive Labour Capitalist Depressing Wages Employed Child Labour

Author:Clara Zetkin

“The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated both by agitation and by parliamentary means. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.”

“Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.”

Facts Given Movement Female Trade Unions Workers Active Trade Unions

Author:Clara Zetkin

“Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.”

Political Used Force Cost Activity Method Statements Confession Arrested Comrade Blackmail

Author:Ernst Thalmann

“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.”

People States Truth Is Deserve Possession Collapse Publish

Author:Kurt Eisner

“Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.”

Knows Men Three Fate Hundred Continents Successors Entourage

Author:Walther Rathenau

“In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.”

Different Bigs Order Left Sound Secret Industry Demand Hundred Concern Management Insight Finance Undertakings

Author:Walther Rathenau

“There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.”

Men World Self Life Is Race Conscious Hot Dresses Aliens Loud Corporations Midst Isolated Restless Self Conscious Horde Sandy Prussia

Author:Walther Rathenau

“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”

World Party Known Communist Mafia Communist Party

Author:David Remnick

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