I am Rosa Luxemburg. Before you begin reading about my life, I want you to know that I am a hard core communist. If you are offended by the things I write in my online journal, kindly exit this site. Thanks!
Let’s begin with my personal background! Though my buddy Karl and I founded the German Communist Party, I am actually from Poland. I was the fifth and last child of Eliaz Luxemburg and Line Löwenstein, born in Zamość, a Polish area of Russia on March 5 (I am not going to tell you what year, for obvious reasons). My family was of Jewish decent and my family was part of the lower middle class. If some of my readers have seen me in real life, you may notice that I have a limp in my walk. I’ll have you know that I was born with a hip problem which restricts me from walking properly. So all you people who make fun of me…you should be ashamed. Anyways, I have always been interested in politics at a young age. I remember being enrolled in the girls’ gymnasium in Warsaw at the age of sixteen. I graduated the top of my class; however, I did not get the gold medal that I deserved because I showed “an opposition attitude toward the authorities”. Later on in life, I became part of the Polish, left-wing Proletariat party. I started out organizing a general strike, but that didn’t end well as four of its leaders were put to death. The remaining members continued to meet in secret, but eventually the police tracked me down and in 1889, I had no choice but to flee to Zürich, Switzerland, or else I would have been imprisoned for my political views. I realized that I had to do something real in my life, so I decided to attend Zürich University. I took classes on philosophy, history, politics, and mathematics. These classes were cool, but what I really excelled in was in Staatswissenschaft and economic/ stock exchange crises.
In 1893, alongside Leo Jogiches and Julius Karski, we created the newspaper Sprawa Robotnicza (The Workers' Cause) which published in Paris and opposed the nationalistic policies of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), whose main goal is the independence of Poland from Russia. I was against capitalism and my denying of national self-determination under socialism provoked tensions with V.I. Lenin. (Whatever, I was obviously cooler than him) Around 1894, our Proletariat party was changed to be named the Social Democrat Party of the Kingdom of Poland (SDKPL) and merged with Lithuania’s social democratic organization. Even though I live in Germany for the bulk of my life, I am the principal theoretician of the SDKPL with my buddy Jogiches, the main organizer. As I have said before, I was against the Polish nationalistic views and when I voiced out my opinion that the PPS had no nationalistic tendencies and a proneness to diverting the workers from the path of class struggle, people such as Wilhelm Liebknecht accused me of being and agent of the Tsarist secret police (that absurd child). Nonetheless, no one could change my mind, and I stuck to my point. I wrote about my opinions and eventually became one of the main contributors to the most Important Marxist journal, Die Neue Zeit. I received a bunch of criticism, even from the well known Karl Kautsky aka “the Pope of Marxism”. But whatever, I do what I want, I write what I want, and I believe in whatever I want. Nobody can stop me, because I am Rosa Luxemburg.
SOURCE:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1969/rosalux/1-biog.htm
