Rosa Luxemburg was arguably one of the finest political theorists of the 20th century. Luxemburg was a German revolutionary leader, journalist, and socialist theorist. She lived the international life of a Socialist pilgrim, believing that only socialism could bring true freedom and social justice. Luxemburg was the advocate of mass action, spontaneity, and workers democracy but her criticism of the revisionist position of Edward Bernstein is considered her most important legacy to European political thought. …showed first 75 words of 1639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1639 total…effective strategies for the political atmosphere of the post-war period. She was driven by an urge to live a complete life; Rosa Luxemburg left her country, her home, and her family. She sought to make the lives of all people complete and worth living. Luxemburg was far from being an armchair revolutionary. She was always right there in the thick of the action. Rosa Luxemburg paid the ultimate price of carrying out her beliefs, death.