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 utilise the economic and political crisis brought about by the war to rouse the various social strata and to hasten the overthrow of capitalist class rule."
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1914, quoted in Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich, 1994 ed.
That was part of a resolution she drew up with Lenin and Martov. The resolution was drawn in an atmosphere of suppression and repression of anti-war advocates, and which was fashioned and refashioned so that not to give the German Public Prosecutor any cause of an indictment, or even the suppression of the Social Democratic Party.
Militarism, Luxemburg wrote in 1911, can be abolished only by the destruction of the capitalist state. A hardly pacifist claim!
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 utilise the economic and political crisis brought about by the war to rouse the various social strata and to hasten the overthrow of capitalist class rule."
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1914, quoted in Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich, 1994 ed.
That was part of a resolution she drew up with Lenin and Martov. The resolution was drawn in an atmosphere of suppression and repression of anti-war advocates, and which was fashioned and refashioned so that not to give the German Public Prosecutor any cause of an indictment, or even the suppression of the Social Democratic Party.
Militarism, Luxemburg wrote in 1911, can be abolished only by the destruction of the capitalist state. A hardly pacifist claim!
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