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Rosa Luxemburg wrote hundreds of articles and pamphlets as well as several books in 25 years—her opponents did not give her more time. A small selection is offered here.

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A Duty of Honour

We did not want any »amnesty«, nor pardon, for the political prisoners who were the victims of the old order. We demanded our right to freedom, through struggle and revolution, for the hundreds of faithful and brave men and women who were languishing in prison because they had fought for popular freedom, for peace and for socialism against the bloody dictatorship of the imperialist criminal bands. They are now all free.

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Order Prevails in Berlin

January 1919

»Order prevails in Warsaw!« declared Minister Sebastiani to the Paris Chamber of Deputies in 1831, when after having stormed the suburb of Praga, Paskevich’s marauding troops invaded the Polish capital to begin their butchery of the rebels.
»Order prevails in Berlin!« So proclaims the bourgeois press triumphantly, so proclaim Ebert and Noske, and the officers of the »victorious troops«, who are being cheered by the petty-bourgeois mob in Berlin waving handkerchiefs and shouting »Hurrah!«

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Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy [Leninism or Marxism?]

An unprecedented task in the history of the socialist movement has fallen to the lot of the Russian Social Democracy. It is the task of deciding on what is the best socialist tactical policy in a country where absolute monarchy is still dominant. It is a mistake to draw a rigid parallel between the present Russian situation and that which existed in Germany during the years 1879–90, when Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws were in force. The two have one thing in common—police rule. Otherwise they are in no way comparable.

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The Accumulation of Capital – An Anti-Critique

The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory

Habent sua fata libelli—books have their fates. When I wrote my Accumulation a thought depressed me from time to time: all followers of Marxist doctrine would declare that the things I was trying to show and carefully substantiate were self-evident. Nobody would voice a different opinion; my solution of the problem would be the only possible one imaginable. It turned out very differently: a number of critics in the Social Democratic press declared that the book was totally misguided to start with and that such a problem calling for solution did not exist at all.

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The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution is the mightiest event of the World War. Its outbreak, its unexampled radicalism, its enduring consequences, constitute the clearest condemnation of the lying phrases which official Social Democracy so zealously supplied at the beginning of the war as an ideological cover for German imperialism’s campaign of conquest. I refer to the phrases concerning the mission of German bayonets, which were to overthrow Russian Tsarism and free its oppressed peoples.

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