Rosa Luxemburg

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.