Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburgwas a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, Anti-War Activist, and revolutionary socialist 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, the Independent Social Democratic Party, and the Communist Party of Germany...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth5 March 1871
CountryRussian Federation
Rosa Luxemburg quotes about
revolutionary happenings can-do
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
peace war struggle
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
democracy socialism
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.
revolution impossible inevitable
Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.
leadership reality creating
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
views world clear-view
The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.
forgotten ifs
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
science intellectual vistas
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.
leader firsts revolution
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.
rome victory culture
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.
peace party men
Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.
ignorance class people
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
leadership determination destiny
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
regression transition socialism
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.