Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 - January 15, 1919, in Polish language Ró?a Luksemburg) was a Polish-born German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a social democratic theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and later the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. She started the newspaper The Red Flag, and cofounded the Spartakusbund, a Marxist revolutionary group that became the Communist Party of Germany and took part in an unsuccessful revolution in Berlin in January, 1919. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's advice, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing militias collectively called the Freikorps, which were sent in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.

Further reading

• Stephen Eric Bronner: Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times, 1984
• Elzbieta Ettinger: Rosa Luxemburg: A Life, 1988
• Paul Frolich: Rosa Luxemburg, 1939
• Norman Geras The legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, 1976
• Klaus Gietinger: Eine Leiche im Landwehrkanal – Die Ermordung der Rosa L. (A Corpse in the Landwehrkanal - The Murder of Rosa L.), Verlag 1900 Berlin – ISBN 3-930278-02-2
• Peter Hudis (Editor), Kevin B. Anderson: The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, 2004
• Donald E. Shepardson: Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream, New York 1996