r/Luxemburgism • u/DarthThalassa • Sep 24 '24
Red Rosa Lives On
More than a century ago, Rosa Luxemburg was brutally tortured and murdered by the proto-Nazi Freikorps at the behest of the abominable, backstabbing SPD. After her death, her legacy was tarnished by Stalinists and other reactionary traitors. Today, few self-proclaimed Marxists recognize Luxemburgism as a Marxist tendency...
Despite all this, there are those of us who have read her works and accepted her theories as the correct evolution of Marxist thought; we recognize Rosa Luxemburg as Marx's truest ideological successor. We seek to bring awareness of her theories and inspire grassroots revolutions throughout the world to establish international communism.
In spite of a history of unjust deminishment and dismissal, Red Rosa's legacy burns bright to this day. And we can not let it deminish. I'm creating this brief tributary post in hopes of reigniting this subreddit, so that Luxemburgists can have a place to discuss socialism and communism through the lens of Luxemburg's theories, without having to constantly defend them, and without having to hold back our sharpest critiques of other claimed descendents of Marxist thought out of trying to avoid sectarianism.
While her life ended far too early, and in a horrific way she never deserved, Red Rosa lives on as she "affect[s] people like a clap of thunder, inflame[s] [our] minds with the breadth of her vision, the strength of [her] conviction and the power of [her] expression." ~Rosa Luxemburg (a letter to Leo Jogiches, 1899)
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u/Anonymoussocialist12 Sep 24 '24
Absolutely, long live Rosa Luxembourg.