
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
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. What would one say of a general who in the enemy’s country sought to fill the ranks of his army with recruits from the ranks of the enemy? Would that not be the height of foolishness? Very well, to take into our army – which is an army for the class struggle and the class war – opponents, soldiers with aims and interests entirely opposite to our own, – that would be madness, that would be suicide.
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Kenneth Boulding cited in: World Union (Organization) (1982) World union. Vol 22. p. 35
1980s
Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 133 If the peoples of great nations can work, sacrifice, fight, and die together because they share common fears and common hatreds in war, why can we not find a way to tap the great spiritual reservoir that lies deep within each of us and get people and nations working, sacrificing, and building together in peacetime because they share common hopes and common aspirations.
“International unity of the workers is more important than the national.”
Letter to Inessa Armand (20 November 1916) Collected Works, Vol. 35, pp. 246-247.
1910s
On Coalition Government (1945)
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) (excerpts)
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”