Presentation on Rosa Luxemburg

1. Rosa
Luxemburg
By: Group Berlin

2. RosaLuxemburg:
On March 5, 1871 Rosa Luxemburg was born in
Zamosc, Poland
She was the youngest of five children
She stated in political dealing while she was at
High school
Rosa was 15 years old while at School
Symbol of
her family’s
Religious
Zamosc, Poland

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She had a longtime friendship and sometime lover
Leo Jogiches
She was married to a Gustav Lubeck in April 1898
Murder by Free Corps in Berlin, Germany on
January 15, 1919 Leo Jogiches
Rosa and Gustav Lubeck
Berlin, Germany in 1919
Free Corps are people that kill
others by the use of guns

4. Gender Roles
Inspiring Women in Germany: Emma Ihrer, Louise
Otto Peters, and Dorthea Erxelben.
Women’s Rights in Germany: Not considered
citizens in Germany
Women’s Roles in Germany: To cook, take care of
the children, and to go to church.
Rosa Luxemburg's political roots and Feminism.
Rosa Luxemburg's Speech inspiring May 12, 1912.
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Memorial.
Clara Zetkin-Rosa Luxemburg-1910
Happy Birthday Rosa

5. Political
Polish Left-Wing "Second" Proletariat Party
-"Ahead of its time" with socialist ideas - it was suppressed by the Tsar and reformed
multiple times
-Opposed the Polish independence movement
-Crackdown by the Russian government forced Luxemburg to flee to Switzerland in
1889
Polish Social Democratic Party (SPD)
-Luxemburg was major founder of the party in 1893
-Heavily involved in the Russian Revolution of 1905
Polish Social
Democratic Party

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German Social Democratic Party (SPD)
-Largest Social Democratic Party at the time
-Luxemburg taught at the Social Democratic Party school in Berlin from 1907-1914
-Initially backed the German government at the start of WWI
-Toward the end of the war, she and like-minded radicals like Karl Liebknecht formed the
Spartacus League
Spartacus League (Spartakusbund)
-Believed in revolution as a means to end WWI
-Radical beliefs inspired the Spartacus Uprising in January 4-15 1919, during the German
Revolution
Spartacus
League arm
mob on the
streets

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German Communist Party
-Formed from the Spartacus League
-Started at the time of the German Revolution, founded in late 1918
-Included many radical socialists from previous socialist parties
-Luxemburg wanted to limit Bolshevik influence
-Major political party in Germany from 1918-1933
While she was a founder of a the German Communist Party, which would evolve
into a major political party in post WWI Germany, she was arrested and murdered
by the paramilitary Free Corps immediately following the Spartacus Uprising.
Communist
Party

8. Writing: She wrote the books….
Reform or Revolution
The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions
The Accumulation of Capital
The Crisis in the German Social Democracy
The Russian Revolution

9. Why is She important?
Marxists- Rosa Luxembourg is a martyr of Marxism
Education- Graduated from Zurich with a Doctorate
Executed by Weimar Republic and throw in a river

10. Continue why is she important?
“In Rosa Luxembourg the socialist idea was a dominating and powerful passion of
both mind and heart. She sacrificed herself to the cause not only in her death, but
daily and hourly in the work ad the struggles, she was the sword and the flame of the
revolution”
“Rosa Luxembourg's fate is inseparably linked to the development of German labor”

11. Work Cited:
Starke, Helmut. "Rosa Luxemburg." Britannica. December 19, 2008. Accessed March
28, 2016. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Luxemburg
https://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation/rosa-luxemburg.html
https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1896/07/polish-question.htm
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/german/berlin_class/people/luxemburg.html
https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/questions-rsd/index.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat_(party)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_League

12. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/socialist-revolutionary-rosa-luxemburg-born
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/socialistwomen/sw11.htm
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/remembering-rosa-luxemburg-still-popular-90-years-
after-assassination-a-601475.html
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/about-us/rosa-luxemburg/
http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSluxemburg.htm
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173532.
Honeycutt, Karen. 1979. “Socialism and Feminism in Imperial Germany”. Signs5 (1). University of
Chicago Press: 30–41.http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173532. - Primary Source

13. Pics:
http://www.psicomemorias.com/elites-discriminadas-la-otra-mitad-de-la-historia-mujer/
https://rosaluxemburgblog.wordpress.com/page/16/
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1448-workshop-on-the-accumulation-of-capital-rosa-
luxemburg-political-economy-and-imperialism
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530787/socialism-history-explained