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Rosa Luxemburg

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born
March 05, 1870 in Zamość, Poland

died
January 15, 1919

gender
female

genre
Politics, Social Sciences


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Rosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish: Róża Luksemburg) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist 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(SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Germany.

In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, during the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ...more


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Average rating: 4.11 · 468 ratings · 30 reviews · 39 distinct works
Reform or Revolution
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1900 — 7 editions
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The Accumulation of Capital
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1951 — 10 editions
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The Russian Revolution/Leni...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions
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The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
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The Mass Strike
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions
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Reform or Revolution & Othe...
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1899
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Briefe aus dem Gefängnis
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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Selected Political Writings
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4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 5 editions
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Quotes by Rosa Luxemburg

“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
― Rosa Luxemburg
tags: censorship , dissent , free-expression , freedom , radical , rebel
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“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
― Rosa Luxemburg
tags: german-social-democracy , humanism , marxism , poetry , rosa-luxemburg
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“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg
tags: activist , anarchist , socialist
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