Karl Radek quotes

Karl Radek was a prominent Ukrainian-born Marxist politician, journalist, and member of the early Soviet leadership. A key figure in the international communist movement, he played important roles in both propaganda and party diplomacy. He was later arrested during the Stalinist purges and died in prison. Here are 9 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

Karl Radek

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

Karl Radek

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Karl Radek

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