Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (, ; ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist movements of Poland and Germany during the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly the Spartacist uprising.Born and raised in a secular Jewish family in Congress Poland, she became a German citizen in 1897. The same year, she was awarded a Doctor of Law in political economy from the University of Zurich, becoming one of the first women in Europe to do so. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), the Spartacus League (), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
After the SPD supported German involvement in World War I in 1915, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League which eventually became the KPD. During the November Revolution, she co-founded the newspaper (''The Red Flag''), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. Luxemburg considered the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 a blunder, but supported the attempted overthrow of the SPD-ruled Weimar Republic and rejected any attempt at a negotiated solution. Friedrich Ebert's SPD Cabinet crushed the revolt and the by sending in the , government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of battle-hardened World War I veterans of the Imperial German Army. troops captured, tortured and executed Luxemburg and Liebknecht during the rebellion.
Due to her pointed criticism of both the Leninist and the more moderate social democratic schools of Marxism, Luxemburg has always had a somewhat ambivalent reception among scholars and theorists of the political left. Nonetheless, Luxemburg and Liebknecht were extensively idolised as communist martyrs by the East German government. The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVS) asserts that idolisation of Luxemburg and Liebknecht is an important tradition of the 21st-century German far-left. Despite her own Polish nationality and strong ties to Polish culture, opposition from the Polish Socialist Party due to her stance against the 1918 independence of the Second Polish Republic and later criticism from Stalinists have made her a controversial historical figure in the present-day political discourse of the Third Polish Republic. Provided by Wikipedia
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The mass strike : the political party and the trade unions, and the Junius pamphlet. by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Comrade and lover : Rosa Luxemburg's Letters to Leo Jogiches / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Selected political writings / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The Russian revolution / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Selected political writings of Rosa Luxemburg / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The national question : selected writings / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The letters of Rosa Luxemburg / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Comrade and lover : Rosa Luxemburg's Letters to Leo Jogiches / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The Rosa Luxemburg reader / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The letters of Rosa Luxemburg / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Socialism or barbarism : selected writings / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Letters from prison : with a portrait and a facsimile / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The accumulation of capital / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The crisis in the German social-democracy. by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The Russian Revolution, and Leninism or Marxism? / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Selected political writings of Rosa Luxemburg / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The essential Rosa Luxemburg : Reform or revolution & The mass strike / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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La Revolución rusa / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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The letters of Rosa Luxemburg / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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Socialism or barbarism : selected writings / by Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
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