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Luxemburg on Revolution

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Luxembourg and Lenin: A Comparison

Luxembourg thought intellectuals above all needed to be educated by the revolution. Lenin didn't believe that the workers truly understood their fate. Only the Bolshevik Party did. When the Russian Revolution of 1905 fizzled out, both Lenin and Luxembourg believed that they'd been proved right.

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