"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."

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Source: Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press

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

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