Rosa Luxemburg Speaks

“Just two weeks before her murder, Rosa Luxemburg told her comrades: ‘Today we can seriously set about destroying capitalism once and for all.’

‘No, more,’ she said, ‘not merely a step forward in the performance a duty toward the proletariat, but our own choice is the only means of saving human society from destruction.’

Soon was the conviction that guided her life through the emerging from the holocaust of the First World War her words had a sharp immediacy. Fifty years and several devastating wars later, the alternative poses — socialism or extermination — still remains the choice facing humanity.”