Rosa Luxemburg

Political Theorist, Activist

Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-German revolutionary socialist known for her advocacy of Marxist theory and her critiques of capitalism and imperialism.

Born
March 5, 1871
Died
January 15, 1919
Quotes
44
Rank
#551

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"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."

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"The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war."

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"The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone."

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"Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh."

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