Reform or Revolution & Other Writings Quotes

“As long as theoretic knowledge remains the privilege of a handful of "academicians" in the Party, the latter will face the danger of going astray.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution and Other Writings

“We have known for a long time that the petit-bourgeois reformer finds "good" and "bad" sides in everything.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution and Other Writings

“All the errors of this school rest precisely on the conception that mistakes the phenomena of competition, as seen from the angle of the isolated capitalist, for the phenomena of the whole of capitalist economy.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution and Other Writings

“Capitalist development modifies essentially the nature of the State, widening its sphere of action, constantly imposing on it new functions (especially those affecting economic life), making more and more necessary its intervention and control in society.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution and Other Writings

“No coarser insult, no baser aspersion, can be thrown against the workers than the remark: "Theoretic controversies are only for academicians.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution and Other Writings

“Today he who wants to pass as a Socialist, and at the same would declare war on Marxian doctrine, the most stupendous product of the human mind in the century, must begin with involuntary esteem for Marx.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution and Other Writings