The 44+ Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

Social Democracy.. Is Only The Advance Guard Of The Proletariat, A Small Piece Of The Total Working Masses; Blood From Their Blood, And Flesh From Their Flesh.

The High Stage Of World-industrial Development In Capitalistic Production Finds Expression In The Extraordinary Technical Development And Destructiveness Of The Instruments Of War.

The Working Classes In Every Country Only Learn To Fight In The Course Of Their Struggles...social Democracy...is Only The Advance Guard Of The Proletariat, A Small Piece Of The Total Working Masses; Blood From Their Blood, And Flesh From Their Flesh. Social Democracy Seeks And Finds The Ways, And Particular Slogans, Of The Workers' Struggle Only In The Course Of The Development Of This Struggle, And Gains Directions For The Way Forward Through This Struggle Alone.

Freedom Only For The Members Of The Government, Only For The Members Of The Party - Though They Are Quite Numerous - Is No Freedom At All.

We Stand Todaybefore The Awful Proposition: Either The Triumph Of Imperialism And The Destruction Of All Culture, And, As In Ancient Rome, Depopulation, Desolation, Degeneration, A Vast Cemetery; Or, The Victory Of Socialism.

Life Is Singing Also In The Sand Crunching Under The Slow And Heavy Steps Of The Guards, When We Know How To Listen To It.

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.

The Self-discipline Of The Social Democracy Is Not Merely The Replacement Of The Authority Of Bourgeois Rulers With The Authority Of A Socialist Central Committee. The Working Class Will Acquire The Sense Of The New Discipline, The Freely Assumed Self-discipline Of The Social Democracy, Not As A Result Of The Discipline Imposed On It By The Capitalist State, But By Extirpating, To The Last Root, Its Old Habits Of Obedience And Servility.

With The True Artist, The Social Formula That He Recommends Is A Matter Of Secondary Importance; The Source Of His Art, Its Animating Spirit, Is Decisive.

The Masses Are The Decisive Element, They Are The Rock On Which The Final Victory Of The Revolution Will Be Built.

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.

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.