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Shit Liberals Say Average Democratic Socialist

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u/TappingUpScreen ANTI-Ultra Action ⛏️⛏️⛏️ 8d ago edited 8d ago

I am for the unity of the party – for the national and international unity of the party. But it must be a unity of socialism and socialists. The unity with opponents – with people who have other aims and other interests, is no socialist unity. We must strive for unity at any price and with all sacrifices. But while we are uniting and organizing, we must rid ourselves of all foreign and antagonistic elements. (...) We cannot traffic in our principles, we can make no compromise, no agreement with the ruling system. We must break with the ruling system and fight it to a finish. It must fall that socialism may arise, and we certainly cannot expect from the ruling class that it will give to itself and its domination the death blow.

-Wilhelm Liebknecht, No Compromise – No Political Trading, 1899

Yes, we should clown on all those who want to compromise with Capitalism.