“I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.” — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength. — 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… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
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… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“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
