Peace must be more than the absence of war.

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

As a consequence of their low wages, the women are transformed from mere competitors into unfair competitors who push down the wages of men.

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living...

Only the international proletariat can avert this horrific danger, for only the interests of the proletariat are the same in all capitalist countries.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

Cheap women’s labour eliminates the work of men and if the men want to continue to earn their daily bread, they must put up with low wages.

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Let us get to work, in full knowledge that the plan will awaken the great creative forces in each German and help them to blossom!

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

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.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

In Rosa Luxemburg the socialist idea was a dominating and powerful passion of both mind and heart, a consuming and creative passion.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our...

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Let us together build a happy and prosperous life, free from debts and oppression, built on firm foundations that will guarantee peace in Europe.

The entire world, the much-praised European civilization, is falling into ruins through the anarchy which has been let loose by the world war.

Today we are in the midst of a vast project that will bring happiness to us all, and will prevent new disasters from befalling our suffering people.

In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women’s wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.

Because we have eliminated the anarchy of monopoly capitalism, we could develop this plan and take the first steps to fulfilling it.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

Long live the united front of the fighting proletariat and all workers against exploitation, Young Plan enslavement, and Fascism!

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and...

It is not just the women workers who suffer because of the miserable payment of their labour. The male workers, too, suffer because of it.

By 1955 we will have more meat, sugar, milk, etc., per capita than we did in 1936. The same will be true of many other important goods.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

The granting of the war credits was the harbinger for the equally comprehensive and revolting process of capitulation of German Social Democracy.

By next year, 1953, rationing will be abolished and all foodstuffs and industrial goods will be available at fixed and affordable prices.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

The armaments manufacturers in France and England are doing well, but constant inflation is devouring the purchasing power of working people.

We ran to win this election and we lost. It is quite clear that the Social Democrats won this election. There is nothing to discuss about this result.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.