“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
The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Dealing as we are with the very first experiment in proletarian dictatorship in world history (and one taking place at that under… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history… — 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… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
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
