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.
freedom battle speech
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
leadership reality creating
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
struggle movement tiny
It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed.
struggle revolutionary revelations
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
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.
struggle character loss
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the socialist revolution… It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers… One is the loss of its mass character, the other the abandonment of its goal. One is the danger of sinking back to the condition of a sect; the other, the danger of becoming a movement of bourgeois social reform.
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.