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Rosa Luxemburg
She argued with everyone on the left — Lenin, Kautsky, Bernstein — and was murdered by the government's own paramilitaries at the moment her revolution seemed closest to succeeding.
1871–1919
Life Journey
A life of resistance, thought, and defiance
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1871
Birth in Partitioned Poland
Rosa Luxemburg was born in Russian-ruled Poland, into a Jewish family, growing up amid political repression that shaped her early awareness of injustice.
