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Karl Radek
Ukrainian
Politician
About the author
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,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Time
#Life
#Strength
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
Karl Radek,
Ukrainian
Politician
#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,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Policy
#Ideas
#Socialism
#Party
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
Karl Radek,
Ukrainian
Politician
#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,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Will
#Country
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
Karl Radek,
Ukrainian
Politician
#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,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Country
#Party
#Absence
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
Karl Radek,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Policy
#Question
#Party
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,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Home
#English
#Actions
#Class
#Agitation
#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,
Ukrainian
Politician
#Socialism
#Class