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Rosa Luxemburg According to El País

I'm surprised to see this on El País . I'm not surprised to see the distortion in calling Rosa Luxemburg a 'pacifist.' De su vasta producción teórica destacan los temas que forman parte de su legado y que constituyen lo que, una vez muerta Rosa, se denominó “luxemburguismo”, una escuela marxista de características propias: su pacifismo, su lucha contra el revisionismo y la defensa de la democracia en el seno de la revolución. But which "democracy" Luxemburg fought for? Bourgeois democracy? "In the event of war threatening to break out, it is the duty of the workers and their parliamentary representatives in the countries involved to do everything possible to prevent the out break of war by taking suitable measures, which can, of course, be changed or intensified in accordance with the exacerbation of the class struggle and the general political situation. Should war break out nevertheless, it is their duty to advocate its speedy end and to utilis