Revolution releases Luxemburg from prison

She is held in Berlin, later transferred to Wronki and Breslau, remaining imprisoned until the revolution in November 1918. Her imprisonment removes a leading voice from public organizing but...

From prison, Luxemburg welcomes the Russian Revolution and analyzes its international consequences. She views the overthrow of the tsar as a world-historical opening while fearing isolation if...

Luxemburg supports the revolution’s challenge to war and landlord power, while warning that restrictions on political freedoms threaten socialist self-government. Her criticism is later published...

Her manuscript praises the Bolsheviks’ break with imperial war and landlordism but criticizes the suppression of political pluralism and the restriction of democratic life. The argument insists that...

Her analysis of the Russian Revolution supports the overthrow of landlordism and the end of the war while warning that suppressing political freedoms can undermine socialist democracy. Because the...

Within a day of her release she helps edit the revolutionary newspaper Die Rote Fahne. The paper becomes a platform for debate over the revolution’s direction, the councils, the SPD-led government and...

In “What Does the Spartacus League Want?” she calls for socialization of major industries, workers’ power through councils and international revolution. The programme treats emancipation as a task for...

She urges the councils’ congress to make the councils the basis of national authority rather than transfer power to a National Assembly. Delegates vote for elections, demonstrating that...

Luxemburg helps found the KPD at its congress in Berlin. The new party gathers revolutionary socialists but is divided over electoral participation, centralized party organization and the timing and...

At the founding congress she recommends standing in the National Assembly election, believing revolutionaries should use the platform to organize support. Delegates reject her view and vote to...