Rosa Luxemburg Flashcards
Who was she
A polish socialist who became naturalised to Germany and was a key figure in radical left-wing politics, she made a contribution to to fundamentalist socialism that drifted from Mark and Lenin who was her contemporary. She was tortured and murdered by right-wing paramilitaries in January 2019.
Key work
‘Reform of revolution?”
Agree that capitalism was
At offs with human nature and also rejected evolutionary socialism
Believed a revolution would
Come spontaneously. She also rejected the idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat like that imposed by Lenin.
Believed in… but rejected….
International Revolution and rejected nationalism
Although she was a revolutionary socialist….
She did contest elections as part of the German Communist Party seeing this as a step towards revolution as it gave her chance to make the case to the workers.
