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Rosa Luxemburg
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The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism,
must be extirpated root and branch.
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Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party
– however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive,
wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic,
and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.
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It is contrary to history to represent work for reforms as a long-drawn out revolution and revolution as a condensed series of reforms.
A social transformation and a legislative reform do not differ according to their duration but according to their content...
people who pronounce themselves in favour of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to
the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil,
calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal.
Instead of taking a stand for the establishment of a new society they take a stand for surface modifications of the old society.
If we follow the political conceptions of revisionism,
we arrive at the same conclusion that is reached when we follow the economic theories of revisionism.
Our program becomes not the realisation of socialism, but the reform of capitalism.
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Militarism – which to society as a whole represents a completely absurd economic waste of enormous productive forces – and which for the working class means a lowering of its standard of living with the objective of enslaving it socially – is for the capitalist class economically the most alluring, irreplaceable kind of investment and politically and socially the best support for their class rule.
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The nationality question... cannot be settled by the use of some vague cliché, even such a fine-sounding formula as “the right of all nations to self-determination”. For such a formula expresses either absolutely nothing, so that it is an empty, noncommittal phrase, or else it expresses the unconditional duty of socialists to support all national aspirations, in which case it is simply false.
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