Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was at the forefront of the fight against the world war. It was the logical consequence of his antimilitarist struggle that led to his imprisonment on several occasions for Prussian militarism, accused of "calling for rebellion", "inciting soldiers to disobedience" and "insulting the emperor". During his time in prison he wrote one of his most famous essays: The Crisis of Social Democracy, also known as the Junius Pamphlet. In it he explained that the war did not have a defensive character against Russian tsarism, but constituted an imperialist war arising from the contradictions and necessities of the development of capitalism. In that period of reaction it was a manual for the education of the nucleus of Marxist cadres and revolutionary workers of Germany who would later lead the revolution of the councils in November 1918. No one can remain indifferent to...read more
