The Death of Rosa Luxembourg

Rosa Luxembourg was a leader of the Spartacist uprising in Germany. She and Karl Liebnecht were shot by soldiers, her body dumped in a Berlin canal. David Walliams says they shared an instinct to oppose revolutionary politics. He argues that those who live by the sword may well die by the sword but those who've lived a revolutionary life have really lived.

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