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Rosa Luxemburg
(1871 - 1919)
German economist, theorist, and philosopher
German economist
theorist
and philosopher
Polish-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary, co-founder of the Spartacus League.
Born in 1871 in Zamość, Rosa Luxemburg became a pioneering economist and political philosopher.
She earned her doctorate in economics and critiqued capitalist systems in her influential writings.
Luxemburg opposed both World War I and authoritarian socialism, advocating for mass action and democratic processes.
She co-founded the Spartacus League with Karl Liebknecht, leading the short-lived German Revolution of 1918–1919.
Her assassination in 1919 solidified her legacy as a symbol of revolutionary struggle and intellectual rigor.
Rosa Luxemburg