Luxemburg on Revolution
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Luxembourg's Double Criticism of Lenin
Luxembourg thought that Lenin was killing the revolution before it started, by lacking courage to listen to it. But there's also a kind of oddity to the argument that she makes in the Russian revolution. She seems genuinely to think he's an absolutely heroic figure, and you sense that she also knows that he might be a monster.
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