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Luxembourg's Worst Day
- Rosa Luxembourg, a revolutionary, faced many hardships, including imprisonment and constant danger.
- The outbreak of World War I on August 4, 1914, marked the worst day of her life before her assassination.
The SPD's Betrayal
- The German Parliament's approval of war credits on August 4, 1914, devastated Luxembourg.
- Her socialist party's unanimous support for the war, despite its antithetical nature to socialist principles, led her to contemplate suicide.
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.