Rosa Luxemburg quotes - page 3

Socialism in life demands a complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois rule. (Rosa Luxemburg)
The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight... View quote
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War unleashes – at the same time as the reactionary forces of the capitalist world – the generating forces of social revolution which ferment in its depths. View quote
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. View quote
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The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses. View quote
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The Russo-Japanese War now gives to all an awareness that even war and peace in Europe – its destiny – isn't decided between the four walls of the European concert, but outside it, in the gigantic maelstrom of world and colonial politics. View quote
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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. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. View quote
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Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. View quote
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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. View quote
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. View quote
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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. (Rosa Luxemburg)
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. View quote
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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. View quote
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The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility. View quote
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Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization. View quote
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