#paul levi

[klimbims]

Delegates of the II. Congress of the Communist International | Делегаты II конгресса Коминтерна, 1920 by Olga Via Flickr: First row from left to right: Giacinto Serrati (Italy), Leon Trotsky, Paul Levi (Germany), Grigory Zinoviev, Mikhail Kalinin, Karl Radek. Moscow, 1920. Первый ряд слева направо: Джасинто Серрати (Италия), Лев Троцкий, Пауль Леви (Германия), Григорий Зиновьев, Михаил Калинин, Карл Радек. Москва, 1920.

[bolshevikgirl]

"Working-class debate about the revolution immediately raises the question of tempo. Opinions spread between those of little faith at one extreme, who see the whole question as “still on the horizon”, and, at the other extreme, the optimistic ones who believe the revolution could “break out tomorrow” if some people somewhere were not putting the brakes on. When such questions are discussed, however, it is rare for people to indicate the concrete factors that are decisive for this faster or slower pace, so that the question as to the timescale of the revolution fails to rise above the level of whether a particular date would be too soon or too late. In prison, the day is always long, walking in the woods in spring it’s always short, even though it’s the same day of twenty-four hours. In fact, the pace of the revolution depends on two kinds of factors: objective and subjective. The objective factors are the strength of the contradiction between relations of production and the system of distribution, the possibility and ability of the existing system of production continuing to function, the condition of the proletariat, how acute is the antagonism between proletariat and bourgeoisie, the intensification of crises within the world-bourgeoisie, and so on."

[rudibernhardt]

Paul Levis Leben und sein Wirken für die Politik - ein Mensch geht eisern seinen Weg

Paul Levis Leben und sein Wirken für die Politik – ein Mensch geht eisern seinen Weg

von Thilo Scholle

Paul Levi (1883 – 1930) gehört zu den heute nur noch Wenigen bekannten Protagonisten der Arbeiterbewegung der Weimarer Republik. Dabei bietet seine Biographie etliche interessante Aspekte. So war er als Anwalt unter anderem für Rosa Luxemburg aktiv, und verteidigte sie in zwei großen Gerichtsverfahren die die kaiserliche Obrigkeit im Jahr 1914 gegen die bekannte Sozialistin…

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