Rosa Luxemburg Flashcards
What are the key ideas of Rosa Luxembourg ?
- evolutionary socialism and revisionism are not possible
- struggle by the proletariat for reform and democracy
What socialist is Rosa Luxembourg ?
Revolutionary socialist
What is the key work of Rosa Luxembourg?
The accumulation of capital
Who ideas was she heavily influenced by ?
Marx and Engels
What was Rosa Luxemburg main contribution to socialism ?
To modify the ideas of Karl and Marx and offer a distinctive difference to Marx
Who was her distinctive difference of Marx practices by ? And where ?
Lenin and Trotsky , in communist Russia
What did she believe was flawed ?
Evolutionary socialism
Why was evolutionary socialism flawed according to Rosa Luxembourg?
Would leave the capitalist economic infact and impossible to reform exploitation in a capitalist society
What other ideas was flawed to Rosa Luxemburg ?
Marx historical material idea
Why was Marx historical materialism idea flawed to Rosa Luxemburg ?
Because capitalism did not need to reach a ‘final stage’ before it can be abolished
Who also argued that communist revolution can happen in less economically developed societies than Marx and Engels theorised ?
Lenin
What did Rosa Luxemburg argue ?
Communist revolution could happen in less economically developed societies than Marx and Engels theories
What of Lenin belief did Rosa Luxemburg think was flawed ?
Lenin Belief in a ‘vanguard Elite’ needed to guide the population towards evolution
What will be developed spontaneously?
Class consciousness
What will be developed spontaneously ?
Class consciousness
Why would class consciousness be developed spontaneously to Rosa Luxemburg ?
Proletariat struggle for workplace reform and democracy
What would help to develop a revolutionary state ?
Mass strike action
What did Luxemburg reject from Marx ?
Marx dictatorship of the proletariat
Why did Rosa Luxemburg reject Marx Dictatorship?
As after revolution there should be free elections and democracy built upon common ownership
What should there be after revolution ?
there should be free elections and democracy built upon common ownership
Which of Luxemburg argument is consistent with Marx and Engels ?
Socialism must be internationalist rather than nationalist in nature
Socialism should be what rather than nationalist ?
Internationalist
What is internationalist ?
Diversed
What is her useful quote ?
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of the press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies in every institution
What her key ideas of evolutionary socialism and revisionism are not possible ?
Because capitalism is based on a economic relationship of exploitation
What was her key idea of struggle by the proletariat for reform and democracy ?
This creates the class consciousness necessary for the overthrow of capitalist society and state
