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Post Forgetting Rosa Luxemburg (5 March 1871 - 15 January 1919)

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Alex Kurtagic

We celebrate death of Rosa Luxemburg, who died 96 years ago today. She was a Marxist theorist, ideologue, agitator, and convicted traitor, who was involved in various terrorist groups of the far Left. She co-founded the Spartacist League and later the Communist Party of Germany.

Red Rosa, as she is known, was born to a prosperous Jewish family in Zamość, in the Kingdom of Poland, which was at the time controlled by Russia. The youngest of five children, her father, Eliasz Luxemburg, was a timber trader; her mother was Line Löwenstein.

Her childhood was uneventful, save for a hip ailment that confined her to bed for a year while aged 5 and left her with legs of different lengths, and hence a limp. At the age of 9 she was enrolled in a Gymnasium, an all girls' school in Warsaw. And for the next few years, everything went well.

However, it wasn't long before Rosa fell in with bad company. In 1886, at the tender age of 15, Rosa joined the First Proletariat, a gang founded by Ludwik Waryński, who already had a criminal record and would later die in prison. This group was by then allied to Narordnaya Volya, a Russian Far-Left terrorist organisation, which already had the assassination of Tsar Alexander II to its credit. Rosa's first political act was to organise a general strike. Fortunately, it was a disaster: the party was destroyed and four of its members put to death. Yet, Rosa, unrepentant, and apparently with a clear conscience, continued to meet in secret with fellow criminals.

She continued her education, which, unfortunately, she would later put to malignant use. In 1887 she obtained her Matura, equivalent to a high school diploma, but by 1889 she sensedthe police were closing in, so she deceived a well-meaning priest into smuggling her out of Poland. This juvenile delinquent, to put it mildly, went to Switzerland, where she enrolled in the University of Zurich and studied Staatswissenschaft. The unpublished memoirs of Julian Marchlewski, a fellow student, show that Rosa thought herself better than some of her professors.

It was too much to ask that she reformed her ways, for while a university student she fell in with another bad lot: Anatoly Lunacharsky, who had become a Marxist at fifteen and would fail to get a degree, and Leo Jogiches, an embittered young man who had already been involved in all kinds of shady conspiratorial activities and, not least, with a history of arrests. The hoodlum Jogiches would become Rosa's lover and life-long collaborator, tough their relationship was tempestuous.

In 1893, the dynamic duo, together with Polish communist Julian Marchlewski, who would later join the Bolsheviks, formed a political party, called Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland (SDKP), supporting an international Marxist platform. The trio also founded an anti-nationalist political rag, Sprawa Robotnicza.

In 1897, Red Rosa defended her doctoral thesis, and the University of Zurich

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