Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was successively a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party, and the Communist Party of Germany.
In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartakusbund which eventually became the Communist Party of Germany. During the German Revolution she co-founded the newspaper Die Rote Fahne, the central organ of the Spartacist movement.
She considered the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 a blunder, but supported it as events unfolded. With the crushing of the revolt by Friedrich Ebert's social democratic government and by the Freikorps, Freikorps troops captured Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters. Luxemburg was shot and her body thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin.
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. freedom
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. freedom
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. history & teacher
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. freedom & government
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. 22 quotes from Robert Browning
22 quotes from Robert Browning
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. 5 other sayings from Isadora Duncan
5 other sayings from Isadora Duncan
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. 58 other sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
58 other sayings from Henry Ward Beecher