Obra y semblanza de Rosa Luxemburgo

by Rosa Luxemburg

La vida y obra de Rosa Luxemburgo (1870-1919) no puede separarse de sus textos, pues, su pensamiento y la acción política formaron un todo a lo largo de su vida. Dividido en dos partes, aquí se recoge en primer lugar, su biografía, obra, frases célebres y semblanza de su personalidad y, en una segunda parte, una selección de sus textos más brillantes, que resumen su pensamiento crítico con la evolución dictatorial de la revolución bolchevique, su oposición a las jerarquías clericales, su apuesta en favor de la abolición de la Pena Capital, y su pensamiento sobre la economía.

51 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1919

About the author

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 of the Spartacist movement.

She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (WWI veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German far-left.