"For August Bebel, one of the Second International's main personalities, the Kladderadatsch, or great collapse of the system, was always round the next corner." -- Goeff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
The footnote to the above passage in Eley's book reads:
"Every night I go to sleep with the thought that the last hour of bourgeois society strikes soon." -- August Bebel to Friedrich Engels, 7 December 1885, cited by Lidtke, Outlawed Party, p. 233
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