Who Was Rosa Luxemburg?

Rosa Luxemburg was a radical, a a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. She was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy scandalised people at the time both from the left and the right. Eleanor Penny travelled to Berlin on the 100th anniversary of her death to learn more about Red Rosa.
Learn more about Rosa Luxemburg at: www.rosalux.de/en/

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  • @justaleks3955
    @justaleks39553 жыл бұрын

    We simp for Rosa round here

  • @dreadedworld8864

    @dreadedworld8864

    2 жыл бұрын

    She's literally me

  • @jackbartzen9133

    @jackbartzen9133

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dreadedworld8864 she just like me fr

  • @vergil8833

    @vergil8833

    2 жыл бұрын

    nose check

  • @blondezeke6640

    @blondezeke6640

    Жыл бұрын

    Okay Leon Trotsky

  • @herbertmacaulay8987

    @herbertmacaulay8987

    8 ай бұрын

    🤔

  • @killerqueenisbestmanneko8419
    @killerqueenisbestmanneko84194 жыл бұрын

    Socialism without democracy is just tyranny by another name and democracy without socialism is just a kind of sham, hollow liberation for a tiny privileged minority. -Elanor Penny

  • @angquang2804

    @angquang2804

    4 жыл бұрын

    FatAnteater oh so every thing happened because of anarchist :))) here we go again :))

  • @eoin8450

    @eoin8450

    3 жыл бұрын

    @FatAnteater... Tankies man smh

  • @TTBOn00bKiLleR

    @TTBOn00bKiLleR

    3 жыл бұрын

    @FatAnteater why would anarchists do that? that makes no sense, anarchy is about flattening hierarchies and distribution of power, not chaos and destruction for no reason

  • @johnpijano4786

    @johnpijano4786

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Okay then Democratic Socialist": Social Democracy As a Social Democrat I am willing to throw the Communists, nationalists, Socialists for the Center left to get into power.

  • @alexanderledvina8743

    @alexanderledvina8743

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TTBOn00bKiLleR no it's not, anarchy is about absence of government or rulers. That hierarchy stuff is pure Marxism and anarchism was around before Marx. Such as Lysander Spooner who outside of believing in labor theory of value had little in common ideologically.

  • @despa7726
    @despa7726 Жыл бұрын

    In 1922 when Paul Levi, a German Menshevik, planned to republish precisely those writings of Rosa Luxemburg where she had differed with Lenin, Lenin commented that Paul Levi's intention was to get into the good graces of the bourgeoisie and the leaders of the Second and the Second -and -half-Internationals. Lenin wrote, "We shall reply to this by quoting two lines from a Russian fable, 'Eagles may at times fly lower than hens but hens can never rise to the height of eagles'. Rosa Luxemburg was mistaken on the question of the independence of Poland; she was mistaken in 1903 in her appraisal of Menshevism; she was mistaken on the theory of accumulation of capital; she was mistaken in July 1914, when, together with Plekhanov, Vandervelde, Kautsky and others she advocated unity between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; she was mistaken in what she wrote in prison in 1918 (She corrected most of these mistakes at the end of 1918 and the beginning of 1919 when she was released). But inspite of her mistakes she was and remains for us an eagle. And not only will Communists all over the world cherish her memory, but her biography and her complete works will serve as useful manuals for training many generations of communists all over the world. 'Since August 4, 1914, German social-democracy has become a stinking corpse' -- this statement will make Rosa Luxemburg's name famous in the history of the international working class movement. And, of course, in the backyard of the working class movement, among the dungheaps, hens like Paul Levi, Scheidemann, Kautsky and all their fraternity will cackle over the mistakes committed by the great Communist". (Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).

  • @dirtyboypdx
    @dirtyboypdx2 жыл бұрын

    The ending of this, with that quote, made me cry. Hard.

  • @Jensees901

    @Jensees901

    2 жыл бұрын

    you and me both, comrade

  • @Jensees901
    @Jensees9012 жыл бұрын

    Holy sh*t, this was very educational and the end ripped my heart apart.

  • @anniekuruvila5273

    @anniekuruvila5273

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, but ideas are not segments between two points, and then find their exhaustion. But living arguments that have to find new meaning in reaching the dawns of new light. Much of the enlightened past has found there frustrations in todays failure to expand on them.

  • @despa7726
    @despa7726 Жыл бұрын

    5:56 Luxemburg and Lenin did not diverge on this issue at all! Where do you get this idea? There was some disagreement on the issue of the popular support for the October Revolution, where Luxemburg, who was in prison at this time, thought that it should not have been conducted, since it did not have the support of the majority of the people, but she corrected this idea later when she was released from prison in 1918. Both Luxemburg and Lenin knew, though, that the ideas of Communists (insofar as they are Communists) were those of the proletariat itself - where those which represented the class interests of the proletariat, and those which sprung up after arduous class struggle as a proletarian. But even then, they also held that the whole proletariat might not believe in these ideas, in which case they must be taught and come to understand such ideas. The masses of the people are not 'stupid', as many counter-revolutionaries and liquidators accuse Lenin of thinking, but instead, and both Lenin and Luxemburg held this as well, simply not educated in class struggle. The goal of Communists is to carry on class struggle in the most effective and principled way possible, as to overthrow the capitalist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and to replace it with a dictatorship of the proletariat, which gradually diminishes as the proletariat, which eventually encompasses all individuals in society, becomes more and more educated and capable of waging struggle for their own interests on their own. That is the process, which we call _socialism._ If so-called Communists are scared of educating the proletariat and the masses of the people, then they are against the development of socialism and the abolition of classes. One does not look at a classroom's teacher and condemn them for treating the children in said classroom as 'stupid' and 'needing to have ideas come to them instead of from them'. Children do not always know the quadratic formula, in which case they must be taught it. Workers do not always know Marxism, in which case they must be taught it. If you disagree with any of this, then you disagree with Rosa Luxemburg, and the vast majority of revolutionaries worldwide. This Michael Brie is a liar, a liquidator, an opportunist and a revisionist! Do not let Rosa Luxemburg be claimed by the Social-Democrats and Reformists, who carry on class struggle on the side of the reactionary bourgeoisie! Uphold her real legacy, as a Spartikan, a Marxist and a close ally of Lenin and the Bolsheviks!

  • @sednaorr3273
    @sednaorr32734 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely first rate and heartfelt introduction to the life and writings of Rosa Luxemburg. A tribute worthy of a great socialist hero.

  • @PaulHosse
    @PaulHosse Жыл бұрын

    A very well written and produced documentary. Highly informative and entertaining, reminding us that neither Rosa or her ideals are forgotten. They both remain just as relevant today as they were in 1919, if not more so.

  • @brucewayne5488
    @brucewayne54883 жыл бұрын

    This is an excellent short film, thank you for posting

  • @innalipovets3086
    @innalipovets30863 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this heart-felt and profound short film!

  • @piyushsingh9334
    @piyushsingh93342 жыл бұрын

    Rosa luxmburg is my ideal ❤️✊ She will always Alive in Our Hearts ❤️ Long live Rosa luxmburg ❤️💔 Long live Revolution ✊

  • @pinkoprincess
    @pinkoprincess3 жыл бұрын

    oh rosa, we’re really in it now

  • @smileyp4535
    @smileyp45352 жыл бұрын

    12:11 during war the opposing armies have more in common with eachother than the fat cats they fight for, weather it be monarchy, facism, politicians or capitalists, and the people who don't do the fighting have more in common with eachother than their own soldiers. They just want power and resources. Think about that, as a soldier you have more in common with the "enemy" soldiers than the people sending you out to fight eachother, who in turn are closer to eachother than the soldiers they send to fight. Turn the guns around! Not on those *who are like you* but on *those who control* you! #EducationEndsOpression ✊ (In mincraft of course)

  • @jantyszka1036
    @jantyszka1036 Жыл бұрын

    Very informative 17 minutes. Listening to the contributors here emphasised for me how feeble and compromised mainstream 'leftwing' politics has become in the UK. The question occurs to me: how would Rosa have regarded the EU? An opportunity for nations to work together for justice and human rights, or a capitalist club dedicated to the preservation of existing social and economic relations? More the latter, I expect, far more.

  • @bobofcheesecake3282

    @bobofcheesecake3282

    10 ай бұрын

    Lol do you even know what capitalism is? You may be as delusional as Rosa herself.

  • @supergamergrill7734

    @supergamergrill7734

    9 ай бұрын

    Then she would be a fool since the EU has helped propel Europe into the 21th century. War between European countries (I’m not talking about the eastern part. The Russian don’t count) is unthinkable now a days and everyone under the EU prospers more than if they were left out (Look at brexit)

  • @Ole-ko8ve

    @Ole-ko8ve

    8 ай бұрын

    @@supergamergrill7734 This isnt a socialist way of thinking, especially not a Marxist one. Countries prospering on paper, GDP etc whilst still having sky high inequality is yet another raging issue of capitalism.

  • @charleskesner1302
    @charleskesner13022 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful and informative.

  • @pipersolanas3322
    @pipersolanas33222 жыл бұрын

    I STAN HER SO HARD

  • @buff114
    @buff114 Жыл бұрын

    I love you Rosa 💓💓💓

  • @toshbel
    @toshbel3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for introducing me to the great Rosa.

  • @worriedremediation
    @worriedremediation2 жыл бұрын

    I was. I am. I shall be

  • @Judasziege
    @Judasziege Жыл бұрын

    Very well done video. I think you should do more videos in this style.

  • @fran-kp9in
    @fran-kp9in3 жыл бұрын

    I don't agree with everything she wrote, but I LOVE ROSA LUXEMBOURG 🌹🌹🌹

  • @johnpijano4786

    @johnpijano4786

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes. long live Social Democracy. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @Aman-qr6wi

    @Aman-qr6wi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnpijano4786 what..wut?

  • @bhomikacharya2527

    @bhomikacharya2527

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnpijano4786 missed her points by a mile...

  • @imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

    @imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bhomikacharya2527 she was literally a social democrat. you either dont know what social democracy means or you misunderstood Luxembourg

  • @Bojenblinker47-mp2ln

    @Bojenblinker47-mp2ln

    7 күн бұрын

    Social Democracy meant a lot of different things over the course of History, luxembourg was closer to lenin then anyone calling themselfs social democratic today

  • @kelpdog
    @kelpdog Жыл бұрын

    she didn't write the first quote. that was engles...

  • @EpicGeopolitics
    @EpicGeopolitics2 жыл бұрын

    Hey. Good video. Think it could be even better with a few more clips of her. I get that those are difficult to find tho. Well done!

  • @MrFreud98
    @MrFreud983 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video.

  • @KssN27
    @KssN274 жыл бұрын

    This was extremely well done

  • @smileyp4535
    @smileyp45352 жыл бұрын

    5:04 basically what I think he's is saying is, pure electoralism, with bougios(?) parliamentarianism, I'm not sure how to spell it but the word pronounced "boog-wah" (I'm bad with English spelling, so straight up f me when it come to French 😭😂👌 hopefully I was right or at least close tho 🤞) we need "permanent revolution" which means bringing the electoral environment as left as possible that way and when the material conditions are right to revolt against and out of capitalism into actual socialism. IMO in order to do that we can never forget the goal isn't to compromise but to EVENTUALLY achieve true stateless, classless, moneyless, COMMUNISM. Use whatever means nessisrary and never stop pushing. Take comprima d push electoralism but NEVER forget and never give up permanently even if you have to take a losses. TL;DR: Like Rosa herself might say #EducationEndsOpression ✊ keep learning, keep teaching, and keep MOVING

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi3 жыл бұрын

    Well presented.

  • @clarkewi

    @clarkewi

    3 жыл бұрын

    However, socialism for all its slogans and iconography has never worked anywhere. All it has produced is tens of millions dead. The only ones who benefit are a tiny political elite. And even they have to watch their backs vigilantly lest they be purged and sent the Gulag by their "comrades". Or opportunistic academics or spokespersons making a career in an ever growing "Grudge Industry" in wealthy capitalist countries like America. Anyone who supports this failed experiment in human endeavour makes a grievous error.

  • @LittleBigPoet

    @LittleBigPoet

    2 жыл бұрын

    Come back when you're ready to abandon all the propaganda you've been fed all your life.

  • @danny961
    @danny9613 жыл бұрын

    Tolle und mutige Frau...!

  • @gastgast967
    @gastgast9676 ай бұрын

    Ich finde eure Videos sehr interessant.

  • @johnnywilliams8748
    @johnnywilliams874826 күн бұрын

    What a fantastic video!

  • @rabah_meca7015
    @rabah_meca70153 жыл бұрын

    What a great woman

  • @nati7728
    @nati77283 жыл бұрын

    very good video

  • @Jahida360
    @Jahida3602 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @ineverlickyoghurtlid3903
    @ineverlickyoghurtlid39033 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. this corrupted and misled world needs to know more about its prophets.

  • @nanamannana6
    @nanamannana63 жыл бұрын

    Red salute comrade Rosa Luxemburg.

  • @mxrkxo
    @mxrkxo3 жыл бұрын

    beautiful

  • @adelabrent4792
    @adelabrent47922 жыл бұрын

    LONG LIVE ROSA LUXEMBURG!

  • @pipersolanas3322
    @pipersolanas33222 жыл бұрын

    I'm crying

  • @justinosousajunior5879
    @justinosousajunior58793 жыл бұрын

    Viva Rosa, grande mulher revolucionária

  • @henryberrylowry9512
    @henryberrylowry95123 жыл бұрын

    Warum gibt es keine neue Ausgabe von Akkumulation des Kapitals?

  • @rosaluxstiftung

    @rosaluxstiftung

    3 жыл бұрын

    bit.ly/2TIkoIe

  • @henryberrylowry9512

    @henryberrylowry9512

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rosaluxstiftung Vielen dank!

  • @Illstatefishing
    @Illstatefishing2 жыл бұрын

    True revolutionary!!

  • @alenk7333
    @alenk73332 жыл бұрын

    💔💔💔

  • @ComradeCatpurrnicus
    @ComradeCatpurrnicus Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Her memory lives on, as does the fight against fascism and for a better world of peace, understanding and mutualism.

  • @DesmoProfundis
    @DesmoProfundis2 жыл бұрын

    Not a leftist but I'm here for the educational value. Thanks for the very well done video, it was extremely informative. I believe that trying to put one's self in the shoes of others helps us all grow. Living in echo chambers has become an Olympic sport in our society. If you find yourself nodding along with everything said, you're in the wrong room.

  • @mecca777

    @mecca777

    2 жыл бұрын

    best comment I've seen anywhere in years! thank you for sharing!

  • @wildwilly356
    @wildwilly356 Жыл бұрын

    she was not from luxemburg wtf

  • @logicheems
    @logicheems5 ай бұрын

    非常好视频,爱来自赛里斯❤❤❤

  • @friedrichkertoja
    @friedrichkertoja2 жыл бұрын

    👍👍

  • @salamabouchama7306
    @salamabouchama73062 жыл бұрын

    She is one a great women in Our human's history after Hibatya. Long live camarade Rosa

  • @thusithanuwanthilakarathna4052
    @thusithanuwanthilakarathna40522 жыл бұрын

    We are with Rosa. We are with socialism ✊❤️

  • @markvolker1145

    @markvolker1145

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, people should be made to live their lives how other people deem what is best for them. The individual shouldn't be allowed to have thus ability. Individualism is bourgeoisie!

  • @FaithRox
    @FaithRox2 жыл бұрын

    And then suddenly, for no reason...

  • @ImagoCanis
    @ImagoCanis3 жыл бұрын

    neoliberal right... why have i only just now heard this term?!

  • @seve7766

    @seve7766

    3 жыл бұрын

    Neoliberalism is inherently a right wing ideology.

  • @TheKumarImpressions

    @TheKumarImpressions

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@seve7766 good

  • @rktyler3470
    @rktyler34703 жыл бұрын

    As a reformed and still curious former libertarian... is this just a circle jerk or can we really get together and create a new system?

  • @alexanderledvina8743

    @alexanderledvina8743

    2 жыл бұрын

    nah, too much of the proletariat doesn't follow Marxist ideology and aren't for collectivization and will resist it.

  • @ultrxlight

    @ultrxlight

    2 жыл бұрын

    circlejerk mostly

  • @Kolokommouna
    @Kolokommouna5 жыл бұрын

    If only she had succeeded...

  • @mpumeleloignatius8705

    @mpumeleloignatius8705

    4 жыл бұрын

    Viva Rosa Luxemburg. A defenceless woman kill by German soldiers in the head .

  • @eoin8450

    @eoin8450

    3 жыл бұрын

    Man she was what marx predicted, if only...

  • @shawnv123

    @shawnv123

    3 жыл бұрын

    would’ve saved germany from retarded hitler

  • @jstevinik3261

    @jstevinik3261

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shawnv123 But Ebert (the Bernie Sanders of his time) indirectly killed her.

  • @Ghreinos

    @Ghreinos

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jstevinik3261 Yeah, the left and the SPD, both left parties, but since one could not decide how left the party / movement should be, it would be separated. At the end of the Kaiseereich, Phillip Scheidemann (SPD) proclaimed the Socialist Republic, while Liebknecht (Spartacus Bund) proclaimed the Soviet republic. Ultimately, the Weimar Republic became a socialist republic, also because Ebert (SPD) had an agreement with the Reichswehr General Groener (the Ebert-Groener Agreement). This said that the government should not interfere in the personal details of the Reichswehr. Which of course was a free ticket. Socialists, revolutionaries, and the 1918 desateurs were kicked out of the army, while many conservatives and right-wingers stayed in the army. For the Left under Luxemburg, the socialist republic was not enough, they wanted the Soviet republic and the everlasting revolution. Ebert wanted to prevent that and so sent the Reichswehr, who had a problem with leftists anyway, to fight them. Meanwhile, the Reichswehr avoided right-wing uprisings such as the Kapp Putsch. Unfortunately, Ebert did not notice that the real enemy was on the other spectrum and so played into Hitler's hands. Even if the SPD spoke out against Hitler to the last, it was too late at the time.

  • @tompor561
    @tompor5612 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Hermann Souchen

  • @sku8828
    @sku88282 жыл бұрын

    😻😵‍💫

  • @russellkasmi8487
    @russellkasmi84875 жыл бұрын

    Great vidéo 👍

  • @Beranda911
    @Beranda9114 жыл бұрын

    Than you

  • @jtgidora
    @jtgidora Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video. The social Democrats. What can I say?

  • @phillipp5538
    @phillipp55382 жыл бұрын

    packwacth

  • @woke2woke153
    @woke2woke1533 ай бұрын

    Luxemburg's economic analysis of capitalism was wrong and not consistent with Marx's models of expanded reproduction, which demonstrated how caputalism considered as a closed system could certainly expand economically. The system expanded geographically simply because that was a relatively easy option on the one hand, and because, on the otger, raw materials from foreign countries facilitated the development of industry and technology. Lenin's economic models avoided Luxemburg's mistakes.

  • @lionelmessi-hh3ho
    @lionelmessi-hh3ho4 жыл бұрын

    👍️👍️👍️

  • @GSDKXV
    @GSDKXV2 ай бұрын

    Female empowerment is everything

  • @craft2549
    @craft254911 ай бұрын

    Rosa Luxemburg was sympathisant of Bolsheviks and if she and shes party ruled. In the Germany has happened horrible things like in Soviet Union.

  • @zoebaggins90

    @zoebaggins90

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes, exactly. The Weimar republic is the root of all evil in modern times.

  • @Avidgermanist

    @Avidgermanist

    13 күн бұрын

    Not at all, she vehemently criticized the excesses of the Bolsheviks several times and that the bloody revolution under their leadership took...

  • @conradgaarder2789
    @conradgaarder2789Ай бұрын

    I bet none of the people commenting think they’re proletarian.

  • @LastNRA
    @LastNRA2 жыл бұрын

    She's right about socialism and barbarism to a certain extent. The demiocratic systems will eventually be subverted by those who are willing to trade their individual liberties for some resemblence of safety. Therefore, the only way to stay free is to invoke barbaric instincts. In this sense her pov is quite close to that of Hoppe's

  • @LarsUndBeppo
    @LarsUndBeppo4 жыл бұрын

    Gute Doku! An einigen Stellen in Interviews waren mir zu viele Kamerawechsel zwischen Eleanor und dem Iviewpartner. Ansonsten super. Danke!

  • @Leo-dz5gj
    @Leo-dz5gj3 жыл бұрын

    5:49 best accent ever😂😂😂😂

  • @aranmcdonagh3680

    @aranmcdonagh3680

    3 жыл бұрын

    Was he saying the "marxists" or "masses"😂

  • @creativa2290

    @creativa2290

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @zoober3508
    @zoober35082 жыл бұрын

    Rosa Luxembourg was a hero for all mankind. We must never forget her struggle for true democracy and liberty for all, a struggle that we should all carry on today.

  • @hacelocononda
    @hacelocononda4 жыл бұрын

    Lol'd at the least of grievances portrayed as merits at 1:10

  • @jebuschristler9848
    @jebuschristler98482 жыл бұрын

    Social democracy is the best ideology, communism got wrecked by social democracy 😳😳😳😙😙😙😙🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✨

  • @stefmyt5062

    @stefmyt5062

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nevermind the fact that it's social democrats that killed her lmao. If you're interested in learning why social democracy isn't that good, you should research the law of unequal exchange.

  • @Nateasnay
    @Nateasnay Жыл бұрын

    Lower middle class:false

  • @PabloMuerteUno
    @PabloMuerteUno2 жыл бұрын

    Kosher

  • @marx819
    @marx8192 жыл бұрын

    Haha

  • @user-si4bg6ym8v
    @user-si4bg6ym8v6 ай бұрын

    "She was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century". Really??? She couldn't just be above average, she has to be superlative. I call BS!

  • @fuge74
    @fuge744 жыл бұрын

    important for the disestablishment of the corruption of the age, but ultimately an expansion of failed ideology. today the best use of her work is as an example of a counter opinion. [2:00] your speaker clearly doesn't know what capital is. capital is literally wealth and value and is a object. what capitalist seek to do is to increase their existing capital by investing capital into different markets to produce value. this can either be domestic or abroad. globalism is a belief that capitalist should always invest in heavily foreign market as a means of market manipulation. these are intrinsically two different ideas because a capitalist doesn't care where he invests only that it is profitable, a globalist wants to invest in foreign markets. so here is what you do need to know about socialism. as a governing system it is failed it causes extreme overhead, massive corruption, and a leads to a general lack of ethics. however as a soft system it works, but that is normally called community effort and communication. to separate the hard system of social-governance, i.e. fascism and communism, from the softer more personal system of community the term socialism is wholly dropped. socialization in economics just means to purchase as a whole-collective. there are problems with this, because the opportunity advantage of the individual purchase of a good decreases to being worthless and leads to an abuse by consumption. what we find is that isolated collective purchases are more effective and create an optimal exchange. that is opt-in/opt-out collective purchases allow for negotiations and optimized exchanges. an example of this which mostly works at the government level is roads. roads meet the requirements of socializing, it is equally demanded by all apart and no party unwilling participates, the good is not tangible and dividable at the personal level, and there is no means of abuse by consumption. the same goes for "national defense" but not "personal defense." she called herself socialist but all she really wanted was representation against immoral demands.