Of course, Luxemburg writes, such a determined, "cold evil," contempt, will "mobilize" populations of "peasants against the cities, the backward strata of the working class against the socialist vanguard." It will use whatever means necessary, including the "use of officers to instigate atrocities." It will try to "paralyze" resistance no matter how "peaceful," until it "turns the country into a smoking heap of rubble rather than voluntarily give up wage slavery."
A challenge to imperialism must be done "step by step," with an iron fist and ruthless energy."
The imperialists' emissaries, modern-day Buckinghams, what Luxemburg calls the obstructionists "maneuvers" the bourgeoisie, but the masses of citizens and soldiers must unite.
In this battle is the fight for humanity! For Mother Earth! Therefore, the "the fight for socialism is the mightiest civil war in world history, and the proletarian revolution must procure the necessary tools for this civil war; it must learn to use them--to struggle and to win."
In this battle, citizens must not remain as silent as "dumb statues" or "breathing stones," while the anointed Kings of today in "democratic" states, call for wars and more wars.
In this battle, citizens cannot allow the further abuse of their bodies and labor to become the mouthpiece and plastered billboards, rattling off state news as if it were the narrative of their liberation.
In this battle, the "wage slave" does not "sit next to the capitalist," nor does the "rural proletarian" next to the Junker" in fraudulent equality to engage in parliamentary debate over questions of life and death."
In this battle, the goal of citizens, poor and working class, is to seize "the entire power of the state in its calloused fist... using it to smash the head of the ruling classes."
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