“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” That’s the #19C thinker Rosa Luxemburg, whose birthday is March 5. A bold anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist & anti-fascist avant la lettre. Her work is worth revisiting – always. #philsky #books - ThreadSky

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kristingjesdal.bsky.social • 8 days ago

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” That’s the #19C thinker Rosa Luxemburg, whose birthday is March 5. A bold anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist & anti-fascist avant la lettre. Her work is worth revisiting – always.

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mariesnyder.bsky.social•8 days ago

As she said herself, she was quoting Lassalle, "All great political action consists in the stating of that which is, and begins with, such a statement." Also one to check out: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lassalle/revolt/8-no-compromise.html

kristingjesdal.bsky.social•8 days ago

Thanks for that! Somehow this particular quote seemed very timely -

mariesnyder.bsky.social•8 days ago

He's got some timely bits too: "Pseudo-constitutionalism,,, is to be found in the fact that the government makes statements of what is not so; that the government declares the State to be a constitutional State, while it is in reality an absolutist State; pseudo-constitutionalism is the lie."

kristingjesdal.bsky.social•8 days ago

I guess they all do.... I've been reading and teaching Zetkin lately and she, too, is right to the point. Hard to believe her analysis of fascism was written some 100 years ago.

mariesnyder.bsky.social•8 days ago

Reading all of them, it's a good reminder, for better or worse, that people have been here before over and over and over again. I sometimes think that surely we've evolved *beyond* all this, but apparently that's just overly-optimistic.

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