Freedom Is Always And Exclusively Freedom For

What Do You Want With These Special Jewish Pains? I Feel As Close To The Wretched Victims Of The Rubber Plantations In Putamayo And The Blacks Of Africa With Whose Bodies The Europeans Play Ball… I Have No Special Corner In My Heart For The Ghetto: I Am At Home In The Entire World, Where There Are Clouds And Birds And Human Tears.

On The One Hand, We Have The Mass; On The Other, Its Historic Goal, Located Outside Of Existing Society. On One Hand, We Have The Day-to-day Struggle; On The Other, The Social Revolution. It Follows That This Movement Can Best Advance By Tacking Betwixt And Between The Two Dangers By Which It Is Constantly Being Threatened. One Is The Loss Of Its Mass Character; The Other, The Abandonment Of Its Goal. One Is The Danger Of Sinking Back To The Condition Of A Sect; The Other, The Danger Of Becoming A Movement Of Bourgeois Social Reform.

Without General Elections, Without Unrestricted Freedom Of Press And Assembly, Without A Free Struggle Of Opinion, Life Dies Out In Every Public Institution, Becomes A Mere Semblance Of Life, In Which Only The Bureaucracy Remains As The Active Element. Public Life Gradually Falls Asleep, A Few Dozen Party Leaders Of Inexhaustible Energy And Boundless Experience Direct And Rule. Such Conditions Must Inevitably Cause A Brutalization Of Public Life: Attempted Assassinations, Shootings Of Hostages, Etc.

The Victory Of Socialism Will Not Descend Like Fate From Heaven.

History Is The Only True Teacher, The Revolution The Best School For The Proletariat.