“If indeed the socialist commonwealth were an impossibility, then mankind would be cut off from all further economic development. In that event modern society would decay, as did the Roman empire nearly two thousand years ago, and finally relapse into barbarism.
“As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.”:rosa:
Born in southeastern Poland on 5 March 1871, Rosa Luxemburg was a towering figure of the classical socialist movement— a brilliant thinker, sharp-tongued rhetorician, and trailblazing leader of the proletarian cause. The famed socialist historian and journalist Franz Mehring once called her the “best brain after Marx”. Her comrade and dear friend Clara Zetkin described her as the “sharp sword, the living flame of revolution”. Even Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, with whom she often clashed, was compelled to acknowledge her status as an “eagle” of the Communist movement, at least in retrospect.
“Democracy is indispensable to the working class, because only through the exercise of its democratic rights, in the struggle for democracy, can the proletariat become aware of its class interests and its historic task.”:rosa:
She was, by all accounts, a truly unique figure. A Jew, a Polish woman, physically disabled and politically an irreconcilable Marxist—the obstacles to her pursuing her aims in life were legion, yet she rose to become one of the paramount leaders of the largest and strongest socialist movement in the Western world, German Social Democracy. In her short but brilliant career, she locked horns with the Prussian military elite several times and spoke as equals with Karl Kautsky, August Bebel, Victor Adler, and many other leading lights of socialism. As a political agitator she rallied masses of workers against capitalism and imperialist warfare, while also challenging Marxist orthodoxy as both a theorist and instructor at the Social Democratic party school in Berlin.
Yet since being cut down by proto-fascist thugs in January 1919, Luxemburg has been memorialized as a martyr for the revolution and a symbol of the tragic highs and lows of Germany’s twentieth century more than anything else. While her name and image remains iconic, her prodigious intellectual output and many contributions to socialist theory, have often been reduced to footnotes.
“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. Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of justice, but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when ‘freedom’ becomes a special privilege.”
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg? :rosa:
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Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Marxist organization connected to Die Linke in germany :rose-fist:
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Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg :rosa-shining:
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Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg :rosa-shining:
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how in gods name do people function after high school i immediately fucking fell into the pit of despair
not working so far just seems to dull the pain for a sec
idk, i fell into the pit of despair when i was like 8 so nothing really changed for me
Quarter life crises are basically expected now. I remember going through mine after I graduated college.
I fell into the despair pit in high school, so I got ahead of the curve
Incredibly based guy playing guitar outside the mall entrance singing "from the river to the sea, stop the genocide, Israel is a terrorist state" etc. I went inside to find an ATM to donate a fiver, came back and the police stopped him
Having 6 drinks at a wedding in your 20s: amateur hour
Having 6 drinks at a wedding in your late 30s: enjoy your 24 hours of suffering, idiot
For some reason alcohol has always wrecked me even though I'm only [redacted young age]
I stay away from it unless I can spend the next 2 days really hungover
Maybe I just drink way too much when I do lol
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Words cannot describe how much I hate people like this. Bragging that you got a trans woman to delete a harmless post because its vaguely kinky (not even really?). And I've seen trans women support it because "person with platform shouldnt be so openly stereotypical" or whatever X_X fucking hell fucking respectability politics dipshits.
They think they're policing [gooners/porn addicts/freaks/whatever buzzword they want to use] but they're actually the biggest freaks of them all lmao. Their kink is policing other people's behavior. And that right there is twitter.com's core engagement lmao. Sex cop kinksters.
The anglo's fear of perversion is itself the deepest, most unfathomable perversion.
You really should just be able to scream "RESPECTABILITY POLITICS DOESN'T WORK" at people like this to make them explode and also catch fire while exploding.
abby is a legit kinkster though. she seems to be embracing it more but also bouncing between the "must appear like 'respectable british transwoman publically'" as she's stated before. meanwhile we get to see her awesome collection of latex outfits in various contexts.
edit: but yes i agree the sex cop people suck esp since that was pretty harmless post of hers
abby is a legit kinkster though.
Awesome, cool, love that for her!!!
I know you agree lol I just want to emphasize.
little article from 4 years ago
According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for reelection in 2024
“This makes Biden a good transition figure,” the adviser said. “I’d love to have an election this year for the next generation of leaders, but if I have to wait four years [in order to] to get rid of Trump, I’m willing to do it.”
A political strategist who has recently talked to one of Biden’s closest advisers made the argument for serving one term this way: “Is 81 years old too old to be president? Yes. Is an eighty-one year-old president standing for reelection likely to be successful? He is not. And is it the right thing to do for the country? No.”
So did anyone else just like not have winter this year?
came close to it. it was really warm all through December. we finally got winter weather in the second week of January, and it's been cold and rainy since.
people will blame his antivax woo woo shit but the moment kennedy really lost was when that video of him struggling to bench 115 dropped. he was toast after that. "he was incline benching!" "you don't know how many sets he'd done before the video was taken!" don't care. no shame at all to anyone who can't bench 115 but if like 40% of your branding is "jacked old guy" you should either be able to put up more than that or at least be smart enough to not be filmed benching if you can't.
If I were taken out of context, I'd stream a full workout on twitch to show that I'm a chill lifter dude
sat in the bathroom so long the automatic light just went out
The intelligence it takes to be amazing at your job versus the wisdom it takes to realize you'll get paid the exact same if you do the bare minimum.
I met so many people working in retail who didn't get this yet
I used to be one of them
I hope at least some of the people I worked with learned this lesson eventually
Grabbing a liberal by their chains whirling them like a lasso until stars start circling their head to show that they are dizzy
Show the libs their chains... repeatedly... at high velocity.
If anyone needs education concerning dialectical materialism it is surely otherwordly spirits