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Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.

— Rosa Luxemburg Junius Pamphlet (1916)

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Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung (1920)

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

The Russian Revolution (1918)

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Socialism in life demands a complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois rule.

War unleashes – at the same time as the reactionary forces of the capitalist world – the generating forces of social revolution which ferment in its depths.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

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In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

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