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Shared Views on WWI
- Luxembourg and Lenin shared similar views on World War I's cause, seeing it as a consequence of capitalist contradictions.
- They both considered imperialism, the war of empires, to be driven by capitalism's inherent overproduction and the search for new markets.
Poland's Development
- Luxembourg challenged the conventional view that German Poland was more advanced than Russian Poland.
- She argued that Russia, as an empire, controlled the market, enabling Eastern Poland to develop despite being under Russian rule.
The 1905 Revolution
- Luxembourg and Lenin saw the 1905 Russian Revolution as a true revolution despite its unconventional nature.
- They criticized other Marxists for dismissing it as a bourgeois revolution, advocating for active participation in any revolutionary moment.