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I want to remain the deadly enemy of this bourgeois society and state regime in order to undermine them in their living conditions and, if I can, eliminate them.
Address at the Social Democratic Party convention in Dresden, August Bebel, 1903

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Who was August Bebel?

Prominent German socialist August Bebel (1840-1913) was a founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party. He championed the cause of workers both as a political leader and as a writer of socialist non-fiction polemics. First declared an enemy of the state by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, he was imprisoned for suspected treason and public slander.

August Bebel was also a pacifist. At the Social Democratic Party party convention in Jena, 1911, he stated that in the event of war, those responsible for promoting it should be sent to battle first "so that their mostly fat bodies would cover the fields for the honor of the Fatherland." Twenty years after Bebel's death, the Nazis declared his works subversive because of their socialist and antiwar nature.