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Rosa Luxemburgo: Vidas Rebeldes
Brilliant Marxist leader, recognized for her sharp critique of global capitalism and its drive to war. Rosa Luxemburg was one of the outstanding Marxists of the twentieth century and who played a central role in the working class and radical movements of both Poland and Germany. She was murdered by German right-wing militia in 1919.
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120 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2006
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Rosa Luxemburg
461 books835 followersRosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish: Róża Luksemburg) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist 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(SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Germany.
In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, during the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement.
She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (WWI veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German far-left.
In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, during the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement.
She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (WWI veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German far-left.
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January 27, 2013
I have heard of Rose Luxemburg some, mostly within the frame of Socialist Feminist, and only on passing - truth to be told - so as I saw this book at the souvenir store of our hotel in Cuba, I decided I had to grab on the chance and learn more about her. The first thing to know about her is that she was mostly a Marxist and not so much a feminist activist, though the cause of women was part of the larger sphere of action, as part of the whole Proletarian Movement.
This book brushes upon the subject of Rose with snipets of her work, bits of her life that are not nearly enough top convey the whole od Rose, and which leave you constantly with the fear that important parts of her speeach are left untold, cut out by the scrapbooking scissors of the editor. I like the book in the sense that it gave me more ground to hunger for Rose Luxemburg and her work, but I don't like it because this leaflet doesn't give me enough to start forming a picture in my head of this activist. Thus the lukewarm 3 stars.
This book brushes upon the subject of Rose with snipets of her work, bits of her life that are not nearly enough top convey the whole od Rose, and which leave you constantly with the fear that important parts of her speeach are left untold, cut out by the scrapbooking scissors of the editor. I like the book in the sense that it gave me more ground to hunger for Rose Luxemburg and her work, but I don't like it because this leaflet doesn't give me enough to start forming a picture in my head of this activist. Thus the lukewarm 3 stars.
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