The Future Belongs to the PeopleLiebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich
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The Future Belongs to the People
Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich
World War, 1914-1918
DR. LIEBKNECHT: The disciplining of a nationality living in Prussia fits
exactly into the general picture which I just sketched. Such a
"liberation" of our Danish compatriots I took as certain. The Minister
of Justice limited himself to general remarks about my speech, saying
that I resorted to insults. In that way he thought to provide himself a
comfortable retreat. I have no desire, after such words, to concern
myself any longer with the Minister of Justice. Only at one point I
shall have to add something, and that is in relation to his denial of my
remarks about the conditions in Austria. The Minister of Justice
represented that my facts had been invented. But in Austria
courts-martial are carrying out a true regime of terror, such as was not
carried on in the worst days in Russia. (Lively "Hear, hear!" from the
Soc.-Dem.--continued noise from the majority parties.) I have the
material in my hands. ("Hear, hear!" from the Soc.-Dem.) In Austria
there is no possibility of discussing those things from the tribune of a
Parliament. (Continued noise and shouts from the majority parties to
finish the debate.)
ASSEMBLYMAN STROeBEL (Soc.-Dem.): You make yourselves accomplices of
those bloody sentences. (Again continued noise.)
DR. LIEBKNECHT, continuing: In a few months hundreds of years of hard
labor were decreed and also the death sentence which I mentioned before,
and which was pronounced by a military court on account of the poem I
spoke of before. (Lively "Hear, hear!" from the Soc.-Dem. Commotion
among the majority.) One of my party comrades was sentenced to death on
account of a so-called seditious speech.
(A few other sentences of the speech remain unheard on account of the
noise among the majority parties in the House. That closes the debate.
The Budget is approved.)
EDUCATION IN GERMANY DURING WAR
MEETING OF THE PRUSSIAN ASSEMBLY
March 16th, 1916, 11 o'Clock Morning Session
On the Ministerial Bench: V. Trott zu Solz (Minister of Religion
and Education).
The subject of discussion was: The Education and Religion Budget,
and as a special topic: The Higher Schools of Prussia.
Taking part in the discussion: Dr. Karl Liebknecht (Social
Democrat), Wilderman (Centrum), Frhr. v. Zedlitz (Free
Conservative), Minister (Progressive People's Party).
In this discussion Liebknecht exposes the method and system of teaching
in the higher schools of Germany and gives full play to his great
courage. "The ideal _classical education lies in the spirit of
independence and humanity_," he exclaimed. And, addressing himself to
this reactionary parliament, he added: "Your ideal of classical
education is '_the ideal of the bayonet, of the bombshell, of poison gas
and grenades, which are hurled down on peaceful cities, and the ideal of
submarine warfare_.'"
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