Rosa Luxemburg quotes
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“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
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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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“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
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“The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.”
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“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : Die Russische Revolution sec. 4 (1918)
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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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“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 LuxemburgSource : Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press
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“Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.”
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“We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : 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.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : 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.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : 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.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : 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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“Those who don't move don't notice their chains.”
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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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“Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : "Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung" by Rosa Luxemburg, (p. 109), 1920.
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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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“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.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : "The Junius Pamphlet". 1915.
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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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“The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.”
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“Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.”
-- Rosa LuxemburgSource : Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson (2004). “The Rosa Luxemburg Reader”, p.314, NYU Press
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“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.”
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“The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.”
-- Rosa Luxemburg
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