Rakesh wrote in [6286]:
> And do not forget that Grossmann praises Luxemburg for defending the
> revolutionary core of marxism against revisionists.
Yes, but this was the position of Lenin, Trotsky and the entire Third
International. Even after the ascendancy of Stalin and 'socialism in a
single country', Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had the status
of martyrs. Their murders were also held up by both Leninists and
Stalinists alike as examples of social democratic 'treachery' (whether
there was actual complicity by the SPD representatives in the bourgeois
government remains unclear, at least to me). So when Grossmann
praises Luxemburg on this score he is not exactly sticking his foot way
out on a limb. Indeed, paying homage to Rosa the revolutionary has
always preceded (often vicious) assaults on her theoretical and political
perspectives.
In solidarity, Jerry
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EPITAPH FOR ROSA LUXEMBURG
Here lies buried
Rosa Luxemburg
A Jew from Poland
Who fought for German workers
Killed by order of
German oppressors. You who are oppressed:
Bury your differences.
-- Bertoldt Brecht (1948)
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