35 phrases by Rosa Luxemburg that make us reflect on social policy

There is a whole old world yet to be destroyed and a whole new world to be built. But we’ll make it, young friends, won’t we?

Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.

We must not forget that history is not made without greatness of spirit, without high morals, without noble gestures.

Peace is the world revolution of the proletariat.

Without general elections, without unlimited freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, without a free struggle of opinions, life vegetates and withers in all public institutions, and the bureaucracy becomes the only active element.

The entire strength of the modern labor movement rests on scientific knowledge.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the pillar on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is always proclaim aloud what is happening.

If democracy has become superfluous or irritating for the bourgeoisie, on the contrary, it is necessary and indispensable for the working class.

Who doesn’t move, doesn’t feel the chains that hold him.

You have to transform a world. But every tear that runs where it might have been avoided is an accusation; and he is a criminal who, with brutal unconsciousness, crushes a poor worm.

Anyone who honestly wants world peace and freedom from the tremendous burden of armaments must also want socialism. Only then can true social enlightenment

Only experience is capable of correcting and opening new paths.

Being human means throwing your whole life into the balance of fate when necessary, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

The justice of the bourgeois classes was, again, like a net that allowed voracious sharks to escape, trapping only small sardines.

For a world where we are socially equal, humanly different and totally free.

Capital is a historical necessity, but so is its gravedigger, the socialist proletariat.

Without the collapse of capitalism, the expropriation of the capitalist class is impossible.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always strive for new revelations.

In the midst of darkness, I smile at life, as if I knew the magic formula that transforms evil and sadness into clarity and happiness.

Ashamed, dishonored, wading in blood and dripping with filth, such is capitalist society.

We are not lost. On the contrary, we will win if we have not unlearned how to learn.

Those who renounce the struggle for socialism also renounce the mobilization of workers and democracy.

Tomorrow the revolution ‘will rise again, beating its weapons,’ and to its horror it will proclaim with sounding trumpets: I was, I am, I will be!

As the engine of capitalist development, militarism has become a capitalist disease.

It takes inner self-discipline, intellectual maturity, moral seriousness, a sense of dignity and responsibility, a whole inner rebirth of the proletarian. With lazy, frivolous, selfish, thoughtless and indifferent men, socialism cannot be realized.

Historically, the mistakes made by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the most intelligent Central Committee.

Socialism in life demands a complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois rule.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for those who think differently.

Democracy is indispensable for the working class, because only through the exercise of its democratic rights, in the struggle for democracy, can the proletariat acquire awareness of its class interests and its historical task.