M.I.A. Library: Wilhelm Liebknecht

Wilhelm Liebknecht

1826 — 1900

Biography


Portrait of Wilhelm Liebknecht We Social Democrats dare not be like the other parties, all of whom are equally guilty of the injustices of the present system and equally responsible for them. Every one who suffers under these injustices looks to us for deliverance. Every one of us has had these victims of society, after failing to get justice from the courts, from the government, from the Emperor himself, and from all the other parties, come to us as the last and only ones that can help them. They do not know our scientific program; they do not know what capital and capitalism mean; but they have the belief, the feeling, that we are a party that can help when all other parties fail. This belief is for us an inexhaustible source of power.

From No Compromise — No Political Trading (1899)


Works:

1865: Report on the Working-Class Movement in Germany

1869: On the Political Position of Social-Democracy (speech)

Abridged alternate translation: The Elections to Parliament are only a Means of Agitation

1870: The Reichstag Farce (speech)

1870: The Battlefield, Not the Reichstag, is the Final Court of Judgment (fragment)

1871: Yes, We Want to Destroy Your Culture (speech)

1872: Knowledge is Power – Power is Knowledge (excerpts)

On Education

The Bourgeoisie and its Civilization

1872: Speech Intended to be Delivered before the Jurors in the Leipzig Trial for High Treason

1872: A Soldier of the Revolution (speech)

Alternate excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography

1874: Liebknecht’s First Speech in the German Reichstag

1875: Manifesto of the Gotha Program

1878: Liberty has Been Outlawed Together with Us (speech)

1881: To the Tuileries: 10th August, 1792

1883: Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx

1883: The Spider and the Fly

1886: On the Deportation of Poles from Prussia

1889: On the Political Position of Social-Democracy (pamphlet) 📖

1889: Speeches delivered at the Founding Congress of the Second International

Opening Speech

A Global Workingmen’s Parliament

1891: The Eighteenth of March (speech)

1891: Exposition of the Erfurt Program (speech)

1893: We Are a Revolutionary Party (fragment)

1893: Not a Man and Not a Penny for this System! (speech)

1895: The Programme of German Socialism

1895: A Bad Quarter of an Hour

1895: On May Day

1895: Preface to Eleanor Marx’s The Working Class Movement in England

1895: Lèse Majéste (speech)

1896: Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs 📖

1957 alternate translation: Reminiscences of Karl Marx (PDF) 📖

1896: Protest Against the Kaiser’s Tyranny

1896: The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (Report on Public Lecture in Britain)

1896: A Message From Liebknecht

1896: Our Recent Congress

1896: Statement on Armenia

1897: Reminiscences of Engels

1897: Crete and Social-Democracy

1897: The First of May in Germany

1898: The Future State

1898: May Day in Germany

1898: Social-Democracy in Germany: On the elections

1898: The German Elections

1898: International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress (with Paul Singer) ✉

1898: Eleanor Marx (obituary)

1899: To my friends in England

1899: No Compromise – No Political Trading 📖

1900: Beware of Imperialism and Militarism

1900: To the Editor of The Clarion

1900: On Militarism

1900: Breakers Ahead

1901: How it could be done (posthumous publication)

Mini-collection: Socialism: What It Is and What It Seeks to Accomplish 📖

Collection: Voices of Revolt: Speeches of Wilhelm Liebknecht 📖


Writings about Wilhelm Liebknecht:

1886: News Reports on Wilhelm Liebknecht’s Trip to the United States

1896: Wilhelm Liebknecht and the Social-Democratic Movement in Germany, by Edward Aveling

1896: Wilhelm Liebknecht, The Veteran Leader of the German Socialists, by Edith Sellers

1896: Enthusiastic Liebknecht Demonstration (Report on Public Lecture in Britain)

1896: The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (Report on Public Lecture in Britain)

1900: William Liebknecht, obituary by Daniel De Leon (PDF)

1900: Speech at the Funeral of Wilhelm Liebknecht, by August Bebel

1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht, the People’s Tribune, obituary by Eugene V. Debs (PDF)

1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht, personal sketch by Charlotte Teller

1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht, obituary by Jacques Bonhomme with translated ephemera by Liebknecht

1900: The Soldier, poem by Frank Colebrook

1910: From August Bebel’s memoirs

1911: From H.M. Hyndman’s memoirs

1918: From Eduard Bernstein’s memoirs

1925: Introduction to Speeches of Wilhelm Liebknecht, by Kurt Kersten