... We were very glad about the answers of Grillenberger and the Sozialdemokrat to Puttkamer s hypocrisy.  That s the way to do it. Not to twist and turn under the blows of the opponent, not to whine and moan and stammer excuses that you did not mean any harm as so many still do. One must hit back, and return two or three blows for every one the enemy strikes. That has always been our tactic and so far I believe we have got the best of almost every one of our opponents. Moreover the genius of our soldiers lies in their attack and that is a very good thing , old Fritz  said in one of his instructions to his generals, and that s the way our workers act in Germany. But when Kayser  for instance withdraws during the discussion of all the Exceptional Laws provided the summary of  is correct and wails that we are revolutionaries only in the Pickwickian sense, what then? It should have been said: that the entire Reichstag and the Bundesrat are sitting there only by virtue of a revolution; that when old William swallowed three crowns and one free city  he was also a revolutionary; that the whole idea of legitimacy, the whole so-called basis of legality, is nothing but the product of countless revolutions made against the will of the people and directed against the people. O, that accursed German flabbiness of thought and will which was brought into the party with so much effort together with the eddicated'! When at last shall we be rid of it! ...
Letters: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence 1883