Karl Radek

“Fascism is the iron hoop holding together a barrel whose staves are falling apart.”

“Moscow is the Mecca of the Communists, but the road to Mecca leads through Peking.”

“One sword does not make a soldier, one speech does not make an orator.”

“The German Revolution is the world revolution's most important event.”

“We are not pacifists. We have never been and never can be.”

“Humor is the weapon of the unarmed.”

“Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are but a window for us to Europe.”

“The question stands thus: either the German revolution, or the victory of the Entente and the world counter-revolution.”

“There has never been a revolution that was not bloody.”

“In capitalist society, the press is a great power. Why? Because it represents capital.”

“The Communist International is the concentrated will of the world proletariat.”

“The first condition for the victory of the proletarian revolution in the West is the destruction of the Russian counter-revolution.”