Friedrich Engels once said: Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. What does regression into barbarism mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.

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Rosa Luxemburg was a 19th-century German german marxist revolutionary. Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League, which evolved into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Read more on Wikipedia →

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