The Death of Rosa Luxembourg

Nothing more was officially admitted about the whereabouts of the woman until the following May, when a decomposed female body was found in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. Three physicians, fearing for their lives, refused to perform a postmortem examination and identification. Eventually, however, the body was formally identified (by her clothing) as that of Rosa Luxembourg--the woman who had been led into the lobby of the Hotel Eden five months earlier.

In the death of Rosa Luxembourg, three major political movements of modern European history came together. In life, Rosa Luxembourg had been one of the pioneering leaders and thinkers of the revolutionary Marxist movement. In death, she became

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y thought. Rosa Luxembourg was not really what would later be called a Marxist theoretician in the narrow sense; in Robert Looker's characterization, Though her writings are characterized by their attachment to the detailed facts of the situation rather than the abstractions of grand theory, they are none the less profoundly theoretical in the valuable sense that they seek to delineate the concrete historical totality in a manner which dissolves the false dichotomy of 'the unique' and 'the general' (1974, p. 13). Her writings were those of an activist, devoted not to the academic elucidation of theoretical concepts, but to the application of Marxist theory in the specific situation of Germany in the years around the turn of the century. Luxembourg arrived in Germany at a time when a fundamental debate had broken out between two wings of the Marxist movement. This debate was triggered by Edouard Bernstein, a prominent German socialist, who in 1897-98 put forward a "revisionist" interpretation of Marxism. Bernstein argued that Marx's original assumption--a Dickensian impoverishment of the working class, leading ultimately to the explosive collapse of capitalism--was already outdated, and that socialism could be achieve
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