Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways. First of all there exist within Europe among the capitalist States – and will so long as these exist – the most violent struggles of competition and antagonisms, and secondly… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour declared: in view of the needs of the war we hereby turn over the means of production, the earth, the factories and the mills thereon, into the possession of the people? Have they relinquished the right to make… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share
“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.” — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be! — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“The railway trains full with reservists are no longer accompanied by the loud acclamations of the young ladies; the soldiers no longer smile at the populace out of their carriage windows; instead they slink silently through the streets, their packs in their hands, while the public follows its daily preoccupations with dour faces. In the sober atmosphere of the morning… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the social revolution. It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers by which it is constantly being threatened. One is the loss… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
