Rosa Luxemburg Presentation

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Rosa Luxemburg

• By Group Berlin

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Rosa Luxemburg
Zamosc, Poland

• 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

Symbol of her familys Religious
Her family leaving Zamosc, Poland
Rosa was 15 years old while at School
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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
Free Corps are people that kill others by the use
of guns
Berlin, Germany in 1919
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Gender Roles
Happy Birthday Rosa
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish political
philosopher, economist, marxist, and revolutionary

• Inspiring Women in Germany Emma Ihrer, Louise
  Otto Peters, and Dorthea Erxelben.
• Womens Rights in Germany Not considered
  citizens in Germany
• Womens 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
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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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Spartacus League arm mob on the streets

• 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

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Communist Party

• 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.

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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

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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

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• 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

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Work Cited

• Starke, Helmut. "Rosa Luxemburg." Britannica.
  December 19, 2008. Accessed March 28,
  2016. http//www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Lux
  emburg
• https//www.rosalux.de/english/foundation/rosa-lux
  emburg.html
• https//www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1896/07
  /polish-question.htmhttps//web.stanford.edu/dept
  /german/berlin_class/people/luxemburg.html
• https//www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/qu
  estions-rsd/index.htm
• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_G
  ermany
• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat_(party)
• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_League

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http//www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sociali
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socialistparty.org.uk/socialistwomen/sw11.htm   ht
tp//www.spiegel.de/international/germany/remember
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sassination-a-601475.html http//www.rosalux-nyc.o
rg/about-us/rosa-luxemburg/    http//spartacus-ed
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org/stable/3173532. Honeycutt, Karen. 1979.
Socialism and Feminism in Imperial
Germany. Signs5 (1). University of Chicago
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• Pics
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• http//www.psicomemorias.com/elites-discriminadas-
  la-otra-mitad-de-la-historia-mujer/
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• https//rosaluxemburgblog.wordpress.com/page/16/
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• http//www.versobooks.com/blogs/1448-workshop-on-t
  he-accumulation-of-capital-rosa-luxemburg-politica
  l-economy-and-imperialism
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• http//www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530787/socialism-hi
  story-explained