"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening."
"The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility."
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Source: Revolutionary Socialist Organization. Book by Rosa Luxemburg, www.marxists.org. 1934.
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