Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
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She warned that capitalism would devour the world or the world would end it — then was murdered by paramilitaries after a failed uprising she helped lead. A theorist who challenged both reformists and authoritarians, she spent her life insisting revolution had to come from below or not at all.
Born in Russian Poland in 1871 to a secular Jewish family, Luxemburg threw herself into revolutionary politics young, co-founding a party that scorned nationalism for class struggle. Moving to Germany in 1898, she became the sharpest voice against reform-as-endpoint, arguing in Social Reform or Revolution? that the fight for changes was only a means. The 1905 Russian Revolution convinced her the mass strike was the workers' real weapon. Her 1913 Accumulation of Capital laid out imperialism as capitalism's survival mechanism — expansion into new markets or death. When the SPD backed World War I…
Sourced, dated quotes from Rosa Luxemburg
Public control is indispensably necessary. Otherwise the exchange of experiences remains only with the closed circle of the officials of the new regime.
I suppose I must be out of sorts to feel everything so deeply.
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it.
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee.
The production relations of capitalist society approach more and more the production relations of socialist society.
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