Produced by Odessa Paige Turner, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE" [Illustration: Logo] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO DALLAS . ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO "The Future Belongs to the People" BY KARL LIEBKNECHT (Speeches made since the beginning of the War) EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY S. ZIMAND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALTER WEYL New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 _All rights reserved_ Copyright 1918 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and Electrotyped. Published, November 16, 1918 Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE BY WALTER E. WEYL 9 INTRODUCTION 14 THE MAN LIEBKNECHT 21 THE FIRST DAYS 25 LIEBKNECHT'S VISIT TO BELGIUM 27 DID NOT CHEER THE KAISER 29 LIEBKNECHT DISAPPROVES OF THE MAJORITY SOCIALISTS OF GERMANY 30 THE REICHSTAG MEETING OF DEC. 2, 1914 31 LIEBKNECHT CONDEMNED BY HIS PARTY 34 A NEW YEAR'S GREETING TO ENGLAND 36 SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE WAR MEETING OF THE PRUSSIAN ASSEMBLY, MAR. 2, 1915 40 IN DEFENCE OF ROSA LUXEMBURG 53 LIEBKNECHT CALLED TO ARMY SERVICE 61 LIEBKNECHT QUESTIONS THE GOVERNMENT 62 LIEBKNECHT EXPELLED FROM SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY 74 REICHSTAG DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CENSORSHIP 75 JUSTICE IN GERMANY IN WAR TIME 76 THE SITUATION IN AUSTRIA 98 EDUCATION IN GERMANY IN WAR TIME 100 LIEBKNECHT PROTESTS AT BEING PREVENTED FROM DISCUSSING THE SUBMARINE WARFARE 113 REICHSTAG MEETING OF MARCH 23, 1916 115 LIEBKNECHT'S COMMENTS ON THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH, APRIL 5, 1916 116 REICHSTAG MEETING, APRIL 7, 1916 118 LIEBKNECHT'S REMARKS ON THE GERMAN WAR LOAN, REICHSTAG MEETING, APRIL 8, 1916 123 LIEBKNECHT'S MAY DAY MANIFESTO 126 LIEBKNECHT'S MAY DAY 1916 SPEECH 128 LIEBKNECHT'S REPLY TO HIS JUDGES 137 LIEBKNECHT'S TRIAL AND RELEASE 143