"Ernest Thalmann was a devoted revolutionary, a good orator with a fine instinct for the worker's temper, he was an excellent medium for expounding theories and ideas laid down by others. He was a poor thinker, and not given to abstract study, even lacking enough self-discipline to reach the cultural and theoretical level of an average Party member."
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Rose Levine-Meyer, Inside German Communism (1977), as cited in: Ernst Thälmann at spartacus-educational.com, 2017
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