Socialism without democracy is pseudo-socialism, just as democracy without socialism is pseudo-democracy. - Wilhelm Liebknecht

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Socialism without democracy is pseudo-socialism, just as democracy without socialism is pseudo-democracy.

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About Wilhelm Liebknecht

Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht (29 March 1826 – 7 August 1900) was a German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). His political career was a pioneering project combining Marxist revolutionary theory with practical, legal political activity. Under his leadership, the SPD grew from a tiny group to become Germany's largest political party. He was the father of and .

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Native Name: Wilhelm Philipp Martin Christian Ludwig Liebknecht
Alternative Names: Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht
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When I speak here of our policy, I use the word without regard to anything immaterial and superficial, but in the sense which since the beginning of the party it has had for us in contrast to all other parties, – in the sense of the policy of the class struggle, which has very often changed in form, but in substance has remained the same, – our unique proletarian class policy, which separates us from all other political parties in the world of bourgeois society and excludes us from intercourse with them.

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