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Rosa Luxemburg and Revolutionary Socialism

January 15, 2019 Scott Tucker, Popular Resistance ,
“Freedom,” Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “is always freedom for those who think differently.” Those are certainly her most famous words, but they must not be mistaken for a general piety of liberalism. For they are drawn from a comradely piece of criticism she directed at Lenin and his party in the wake of the 1917 revolution in Russia, written while serving a sentence in prison for her opposition to German militarism and World War I. Whatever our own political views may be, we might honor her memory with a closer reading of her words, and a sober consideration of her circumstances.

In Honor of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (1871 – 1919)

January 15, 2019 Scott Tucker, Popular Resistance , ,
Nearly one hundred years ago, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (both born in 1871, the year of the Paris Commune) were arrested and executed by ultranationalist members of the Freikorps during the early morning hours of January 15, 1919. The poem below was written by the German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810 – 1876) in 1851. Freiligrath was a close friend of Karl Marx. Rosa Luxemburg ended her last known written article ‘Order Reigns in Berlin’, published in The Red Flag on the same day, with the words“Ich war, Ich bin, Ich werde sein” (“I was, I am, I shall be”) taken from this poem.

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