No Nation Can Be Free If It

By The Same Right Under Which France Took Flanders, Lorraine And Alsace, And Will Sooner Or Later Take Belgium — By That Same Right Germany Takes Over Schleswig; It Is The Right Of Civilisation As Against Barbarism, Of Progress As Against Stability.

Bare-faced Covetousness Was The Moving Spirit Of Civilization From Its First Dawn To The Present Day; Wealth, And Again Wealth, And For The Third Time Wealth; Wealth, Not Of Society, But Of The Puny Individual, Was Its Only And Final Aim.

The Proletarians, Driven To Despair, Will Seize The Torch Which Stephens Has Preached To Them; The Vengeance Of The People Will Come Down With A Wrath Of Which The Rage Of 1795 Gives No True Idea. The War Of The Poor Against The Rich Will Be The Bloodiest Ever Waged.

In A Political Struggle Of Class Against Class, Organization Of Trade Unions Is The Most Important Weapon.

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.