Rosa Luxemburg

“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an…

— Rosa Luxemburg

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of…

— Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“The railway trains full with reservists are no longer accompanied by the loud acclamations of the young ladies; the soldiers no longer…

— Rosa Luxemburg

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“I want to burden the conscience of the affluent with all the suffering and all the hidden, bitter tears.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Don't forget, as busy as you may be, to quickly raise your head and cast a glance at those great silver clouds…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to…

— Rosa Luxemburg

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

— Rosa Luxemburg

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

— Rosa Luxemburg

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Clearly, not uncritical apologetics but penetrating and thoughtful criticism is alone capable of bringing out the treasures of experiences and teachings.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

— Rosa Luxemburg

We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public…

— Rosa Luxemburg