Luxemburg's Essays

Luxemburg's Essays

Luxemburg disagreed with the views of V.I Lenin. Lenin believed "that the working class by itself was incapable of bringing about a true socialist revolution." Luxemburg argued "that a general strike had the power to radicalize the workers and bring about a socialist revolution." Luxemburg was famous for her philosophy or spontaneity.

Luxemburg believed a "Social democracy is simply the embodiment of the modern proletariat's class struggle, a struggle which is driven by a consciousness of it's own historic consequences. The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands." If I was present around this time, I would of agreed with Luxemburg's views, in a sense that the working class needs to be able to make their own decisions so that they can learn from them, and learn from their mistakes. This relates to politics today because in the United States the workingmen and women are losing the fight to survive and live in this country, which seems to be a capitalist country. There seems to be more poor and rich rather than the median of being middle class.