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Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Luxembourg's Fatal Error

Luxembourg tried to overturn the new Berlin regime if it wouldn't move in the direction of what she understood as free democratic socialism. She didn't get very far, and then she was persuaded into a fatal error, her fateful mistake. On a much smaller scale than Lenin's, but for her more personally catastrophic,. Her small grouping the Spartacists attempted from the 5th of January 1919 to overthrow the new regime in Berlin. Germany lost it within a year.

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