Rosa Luxemburg quotes - page 3
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-German Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist. A prominent figure in the international socialist movement, her activism and writings notably influenced leftist politics. She remains an enduring symbol of the struggle for social justice, democracy, and workers' rights. Here are 65 of her quotes:
The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight...
Rosa Luxemburg
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.
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Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
Occupation: German Activist
Born: March 5, 1871
Died: January 15, 1919
Quotes count: 65
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