Quotes by Rosa Luxemburg

About Rosa Luxemburg:

Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist 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 (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
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My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay..

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Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

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Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

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What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto:...

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Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided not to allow trains leave the town. At the station all the strikers with their wives and famil...

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Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

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Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

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Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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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.

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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to ...

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Author Bio

  • NameRosa Luxemburg
  • DescriptionMarxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish descent who became a naturalized German citizen
  • AliasesRozalia Luxenburg; Ró?a Luksemburg
  • BornMarch 5, 1871
  • DiedJanuary 15, 1919
  • CountryGermany; Poland
  • ProfessionPolitician; Philosopher; Revolutionary