But I am here not only as a pupil and a friend, I am here as the representative of the German Social-Democrats who have charged me with expressing their feelings for their teacher , for the man who created our party, as much as one can speak of creating in this connection. It would be out of place here to indulge in fine speeches. For nobody was a more vehement enemy of phrase-mongering than Karl Marx. It is precisely his immortal merit that he freed the proletariat, the working people's party, from phrases and gave it the solid foundation of science that nothing can shake. A revolutionary in science and a revolutionary through science, he scaled the highest peak of science in order to come down to the people and to make science the common good of the people.
Science is the liberator of humanity.
The natural sciences free us from God . But God in heaven still lives on although science has killed him. The science of society that Marx revealed to the people kills capitalism, and with it the idols and masters of the earth who will not let God die as long as they live. Science is not German. It was therefore natural that the creator of Capital should also become the creator of the International Working Men's Association.