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level: Rosa Luxembourg

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Question	Answer
Who was Rosa Luxemburg?	Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist intellectual who played an active role within left-wing politics throughout her life.
What two initiatives did Luxemburg co found?	Rosa Luxemburg co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League and the newspaper ‘The Red Flag’ to raise awareness of exploitation under capitalism.
What did she believe about the evolutionary path towards socialism?	She believed that the evolutionary path towards socialism was insufficient given the extent to which capitalism was built upon exploitation of the working-class.
What did she believe where the only means by which a genuine socialist society could be formed?	via a revolution based on class consciousness.
What did she defend?	the Marxist conception of history driven by dialectical materialism.
What was she a critic of?	both Leninism and social democracy.
What did she believe about dictatorship?	she warned that the dictatorship of the proletariat would be replaced by the dictatorship of the party, which would in turn be replaced by the dictatorship of the central committee.
Key quote by Luxemburg?	“freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”