Rosa Luxemburg - The Problem of Dictatorship

Excerpt from The Russian Revolution By German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg

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[LeftPolitiko]

One thing anti-Leninists tend to miss: Luxemburg became a Bolshevik after the October Revolution. She was a member of the Comintern. Luxemburg realized that Lenin was right and, like Trotsky, changed her views.

But let's forget all that and pretend that she was an ultra-leftist whom Lenin hated and vice-versa.

[Menace3434]

@LeftPolitiko stop slandering history , actually read the book this excerpt is taken from read her works before and after the revolution and you will see her views are the same . I sent you a PM with 2 well known examples of her works .

[a199215]

@Menace3434

Luxemburg never approved the repression of Lenin and Trotsky. She heavenly criticized them for that. She opposed the dictatorship of the Bolsheviks and supported freedom and democracy. She was even against the Spartacist Revolt, but supported her party anyway after they decided they were going to do it without her approval. Luxemburg never became a Leninist in her life.

And yes, Lenin hated her. He hated anyone that disagreed with him.

[Menace3434]

@a199215 I understand, i keep saying that to these Leninist apologetics and the they don't want to understand .

[6thmonkey]

interesting but its very difficult to listen to with that robot speaking and makes the speech annoying...

please read it yourself and if you must, change your voice with a audio program like audicity

[Menace3434]

sorry i don't currently have a mic but in the near future i will and i will record them thanks for peeping my vids

[MrLovethelife]

@Menace3434 can you please send the two examples to me, thanks

[1awareness]

@PigCapitalist thank you thoughts

[RottingintheMidwest]

if you must use an annoying mechanical computerized voice to read the words of a woman could you at least use a feminine voice to do it???

[TribalSocialism]

kike whitch

[miikasalo]

@a199215 Pfff Lenin never hated her.

[PigCapitalist]

@Menace3434

They also seem to miss that the Bolshevik revolution was the only of it's kind at the time. This lead almost anyone with "socialist" in their ideology to support and identify with what appeared to be at the time as a genuine proletarian revolution. This was the case with Debs, with Goldman (initially), just as it was with Luxemburg. She definitely wasn't an anarchist/libertarian-socialis­t, that much is obvious, just as she wasn't a Leninist.

[MazdakTV]

"[...] Thus has historical dialectics, the rock on which the whole teaching of Marxian socialism rests, brought it about that today anarchism, with which the idea of the mass strike is indissolubly associated, has itself come to be opposed to the mass strike which was combated as the opposite of the political activity of the proletariat, appears today as the most powerful weapon of the struggle for political rights."

Luxemburg was a Marxist, she'd prefer Lenin any day over Bakunin or Kropotkin.

[MazdakTV]

"The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International. [...]"