thus if all present day states seriously and sincerely want to call a halt to the armaments race, they must begin to dismantle their trade policies, and to give up their colonial raiding expeditions as well as their policy of maintaining spheres of influence all over the world -- in short, in both foreign and domestic politics they must begin to do the exact opposite of what is now the very essence of capitalist class-state politics ..."

-- liepziger volkszeitung, 6 may 1911