The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the di… - Rosa Luxemburg

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The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.

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About Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (also Rozalia Luxenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was, successively, a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

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Native Name: Róża Luksemburg
Alternative Names: Rozalia Luxenburg Rosa Luksemburg Rozalia Luksenburg Róża Luxemburg
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