Slight content warning: mention of the word “naked”
“To say: I ‘appreciate’ your political, approach, ‘but’ it is only a political one and we ‘also need an economic one’, is tantamount to saying: I ‘appreciate’ your point that in taking that particular step you are liable to break your neck, but you must also take into consideration that it is better to be clothed and well-fed than to go naked and hungry.” - Lenin, Once Again On The Trade Unions, The Current Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Buhkarin (https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/jan/25.htm)
Yeah, its from the final issue of the neue rheinische zeitung, originally printed in all red ink. The authorities spent the previous 9 months attacking the paper through the courts, attempting to deport and / or arrest many of the editors, including Marx and Engels. They won both cases, so in the end the government was like “the NRZ has started publishing evil antigovernment articles calling for revolution” and banned the paper outside the court process. Marx resented the excuses the government gave for the shut down, and the article basically points out that the paper has been calling for revolution from day 1