Unveiling the Extraordinary Journey of Rosa Luxemburg: A Biographical Account

 

Unveiling the Extraordinary Journey of Rosa Luxemburg: A Biographical Account

Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg was a German revolutionary, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist.She was known as a political left-wing scholar for his criticism of both the Leninist and moderate social democratic schools of Marxism.

Birth and Family:

She was born on March 5, 1471 in Zamosh Poland in the Russian Empire. She was the youngest children in a lower middle-class Jewish family.Her father,Elias Luxemburg,was a German scholar.Her mother,Leine Lee Loewenstein,was a well-read woman with a high enunciation of classical literature,especially German and Polish.Two years after her birth,her family moved to Warsaw. 

Education:

When her age was 13,she attended the 2nd High School for Girls in Warsaw,one of the country's elite schools dominated by the children of Russian officials.She rebelled against the oppressive school environment and expressed interest in various illegal revolutionary groups agitating against capitalist oppression and Russian rule.As a result,she was denied the gold decoration for the most elevated performing understudy when she completed optional school in 1887.In 1889 he moved to Zurich,where she signed up for the personnel of philosophy,switched to regulation and composed a doctoral exposition on"Industrial Improvement in Poland". The College of Zurich formally granted her a doctorate.She was the first Polish woman to receive a doctorate in political economy.

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Career: 

In 1893,together with Leo Zogiches and Marchewski,Luxemburg founded the newspaper"The Workers' Cause"which opposed the nationalist policies of the Polish Socialist Party.She believed that an independent Poland could emerge and exist between Germany,Austria,Hungary and Russia.After the outbreak of the revolution in 1905,she moved to Warsaw.Between 1905 and 1906,she wrote more than 100 articles,brochures,petitions,lectures and speeches in Polish and German.She was imprisoned three times between 1904 and 1906 for his political activities.From there he went secretly to Germany.Luxemburg continued to identify himself as Polish and did not like living in Germany.In 1907 he went to the 5th Party Day of the Russian Social Democrats in London where he met Vladimir Lenin.

In 1912 he represented the SPD at the Congress of European Socialists.In 1913,at a large meeting,she said,"If they think we are going to take up arms of murder against our French and other brothers,we will shout:We will not do it."

In 1914 he founded a group called"The International",which in 1916 became the Spartacus League.In 1916,she called for German trade unions to declare an anti-war general strike.For this,She was jailed for two and a half years in June itself.She was released from prison in Breslau on 8th November,1918,three days before the armistice.He reorganized the Starbus League and founded The Red Flag newspaper.She called for the abolition of the death penalty in his written essay against the amnesty of all political prisoners and the death penalty. In 1918,the League,the Free Socialists and the Communist International of Germany held a joint congress(over three days)attended by Radek.This conference eventually created the Communist Party of Germany (KDP) led by Liebknecht and Luxemburg in 1919.On January 15,1919,Luxemburg and Liebknecht was imprisoned.

Execution and subsequent events:

After an alleged telephone call from Defense Minister Gustav Nasker,orders were issued to execute both prisoners.Luxemburg was assassinated by either Lt.Kurt Vogel or Lt.Hermann Suchon,who was first knocked out with the butt of Private Otto Runge's rifle and then shot once in the back of the head.Her body was then dumped in Berlin's Landweg Canal.Her body was found and identified after an autopsy on 1 June 1919 at the Charitable Hospital in Berlin. 

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Date & Time:7/5/23 11:21 AM