Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

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• Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

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  Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

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

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  Revolutionary, Happenings, Can Do

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• Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Peace

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

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  Democracy, Socialism

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• The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

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  Views, World, Clear View

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• Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Destiny

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• Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

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  Transition, Regression, Socialism

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• Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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  Inspirational, Women, Acceptance

  Die Russische Revolution sec. 4 (1918)

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Battle, Speech

  "Die Russische Revolution". Book by Paul Froelich, 1940.

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

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  Forgotten, Ifs

  Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson (2004). “The Rosa Luxemburg Reader”, p.321, NYU Press

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• Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

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  Party, Thinking, Government

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.69, University of Michigan Press

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• Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.

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  Moving, Impossible, Contradiction

  Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson (2004). “The Rosa Luxemburg Reader”, p.132, NYU Press

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

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  Song, Rude, Bird

  Rosa Luxemburg (1946). “Letters from prison”

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• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

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  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

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  Pain, Home, Heart

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• Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

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  Moving, Chains

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• Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

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  Freedom

  "Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung" by Rosa Luxemburg, (p. 109), 1920.

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• The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

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  Ignorance, Class, People

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• Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.

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  War, Mean, Civilization

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

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  Weapons, Revolution, Tomorrow

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• The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

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  Leadership, Reality, Creating

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• Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

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  Class, Historical, Rising

  "The Junius Pamphlet". 1915.

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• History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

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  Teacher, School, History

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• Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

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  Country, Maturity, Cities

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

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  Struggle, Revolutionary, Revelations

  "Quote Junkie : Political Edition". Book by Hagopian Institute, 2008.

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