There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the definite decisions of our World Party. Here I stress with the greatest emphasis: our relations with the Comintern, this close, indestructible, firm confidence between the C.P.G. and the C.I. and its Executive—this is one of our Party, the inner-political struggles and disputes in the past and of the higher political maturity of our Party generally.


Ernst Thälmann in address to the KPD Party on the October Conference, 1932; as cited in: Wilhelm Pieck. "Ernst Thaelmann, Fifty Years Old," The Communist Review, Vol. 3, No. 7, July 1936, pp. 12-17.

Ernst Thälmann Quotes

There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the...

There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the...

There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the...

There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the...