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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Born: Mar 5, 1871
Died: Jan 15, 1919
Democracy Development History Own Revolution Struggle
Related authors: Alexei Navalny Emma Goldman Ilya Yashin Maria Alyokhina Mary Antin Vladimir Bukovsky
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom Always Who Differently Thinks
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. Rosa Luxemburg
Fight Country Every Classes Only Struggles Learn Course Working Working Classes
Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial policy of the young capitalist states. Rosa Luxemburg
Financial Old Pressure Control Young States Emancipation Though Rising Indispensable Maintain Policy Ties Exercise Exert Surest Foreign Commercial Influence Which Customs Capitalist Loans
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg
Class Too Proletariat Rising Bourgeois Historical Undoubtedly Domination Against Capital Working Working-Class Socialist Grave Necessity
The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development. Rosa Luxemburg
History Man Action Proletariat Shadow Determining More Factor Retard Development Nevertheless Over Accelerate Although His Historical Jump Very Than Stages
One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues to advance, then sooner or later the periodic clashes between productive forces and market barriers will begin, and because of their recurrence, these will naturally become increasingly rough and stormy. Rosa Luxemburg
Day World Will Become Increasingly Market Later One Day More More Or Less Developed Advance Recurrence Sooner Between Sooner Or Later Longer Periodic Forces Because Begin Labour Stormy Then Productive Naturally Productivity Less Fully Barriers Rough Suddenly
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg
Teacher Best History School Revolution Proletariat Only True True 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. Rosa Luxemburg
Government Freedom Party Numerous Though Members Only Quite
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. Rosa Luxemburg
Democracy Guard Proletariat Total Only Small Small Piece Advance Piece Masses Blood Social Social Democracy Working Flesh
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. Rosa Luxemburg
History Constitution Legal Political Revolution Nothing Creation Society Classes Constitutional Vegetation Existing Legislation The History Of While Act Product Expression
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation. Rosa Luxemburg
Depression Government Silence Discouraged Society Alexander Collapse Mood Hopes Russian Prevailed Equally Revolutionary Reforms Movement Sway Grip Apparent Peaceful Graveyard Resignation
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible. Rosa Luxemburg
Democracy Political Political Power Power On The Contrary Proletariat Possible Superfluous Both Indispensable Seizure Because Makes Contrary Conquest Necessary
Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction. Rosa Luxemburg
World Destruction Own Pushes Development Thus Antagonism Them Capitalist Forward Fundamental Credit
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. Rosa Luxemburg
Reality Own Leaders Development Masses Process Creating
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. Rosa Luxemburg
Alone Democracy Struggle Way Ways Slogans Finds Seeks Only Directions Through Development Particular Course Gains Social Social Democracy Workers Forward
People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society. Rosa Luxemburg
Leadership Struggle People Party Society Finally Reckon Must Vital Rests Mass Understood Conditions Existing Role Against Capitalist Capitalist Society Conscious Necessary
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence. Rosa Luxemburg
Loan Independence Young Imperialist Part Outstanding Countries Foreign Era Acquire Capitalist Means Played

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