Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża Luksemburg) was a Polish-born German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland, later becoming involved in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, followed by the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. She started the newspaper The Red Flag, and cofounded the Spartacist League (or Spartakusbund in German), a revolutionary group that became the Communist Party of Germany and took part in an unsuccessful revolution in Berlin in January, 1919. The uprising was accompanied by Luxemburg's propaganda, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance militias collectively called the Freikorps. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed; Since their deaths, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht have attained great symbolic status amongst democratic socialists and some Marxists.

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Rosa Luxemburg was born Rosalia Luxenburg on March 5, 1870 or 1871 to a Jewish family in Zamość near Lublin in the then Russian-controlled Congress Poland. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her birth year as 1871 on her CV for Zürich University, but her 1887 Abitur certificate says she was 17, in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the Jewish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: Löwenstein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.

After her family moved to Warsaw, Rosa attended a girl's Gymnasium there from 1880. Even in those early days she was a member of the "Proletariat", a left-wing Polish party, from 1886. The Proletariat had been founded in 1882, twenty years before the Russian workers' parties, and started off by organising a general strike. As a result, four of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.

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"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
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"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
Freiheit ist immer nur die Freiheit des Anders denkenden. -- Rosa Luxemburg (via @dummerserver)
Moep_Robotik (Alex.) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:20:11 -0000
Freiheit ist immer nur die Freiheit des Anders denkenden. -- Rosa Luxemburg (via @dummerserver)
Freiheit ist immer nur die Freiheit des Anders denkenden. -- Rosa Luxemburg
dummerserver (Dummer Server) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:00:02 -0000
Freiheit ist immer nur die Freiheit des Anders denkenden. -- Rosa Luxemburg

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