Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Booklet - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

work by Rosa Luxemburg, Levi wrote: «She knew how to fight a
battle as a battle; wage war as war; civil war as civil war. However,
she could only imagine civil war to be a free play of forces, in which
even the bourgeoisie is not banished to the cellar by the police, as
only in the open battle of the masses can these grow and recognise
the size and significance of their struggle.
She no more wanted the destruction of the bourgeoisie by unproductive
terrorism, by the tedious business of the hangman, than
the hunter in the forest wants to destroy the predators there. In the
struggle with them, wild game will become stronger and bigger.
For her, the destruction of the bourgeoisie, which she also wanted,
was the result of social upheaval, which meant revolution.»
The Jewish Polish woman and socialist who abhorred all terror
died at the hands of right-wing terrorists in German uniform on
15 th January 1919 in Berlin’s Tiergarten.
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