SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rosa Luxemburg

1871 - 1919

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Rosa Luxemburg ( LUK-səm-burg; Polish: Róża Luksemburg [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League, which evolved into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). An influential member of the international socialist movement, she is remembered for her writings on imperialism and revolution, and as a champion of socialist democracy who famously stated, "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Born and raised in Russian-ruled Poland to a secular Jewish family, Luxemburg became active in revolutionary politics in her youth. She co-founded the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), a party that rejected Polish nationalism in favour of an international class struggle. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 137 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2024). Rosa Luxemburg is the 8th most popular social activist (down from 7th in 2024), the 7th most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Social Activist.

Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born Marxist theorist and politician. She was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany and a leader of the Spartacist uprising.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 8 out of 840. Before her are Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, and Eleanor Roosevelt. After her are Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, Aung San Suu Kyi, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and Claus von Stauffenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Marcel Proust, Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Scriabin, Friedrich Ebert, Grazia Deledda, Victor Grignard, Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 2. Before her is Pierre-Auguste Renoir. After her are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Emil Fischer, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfred Werner, Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Emiliano Zapata.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 7 out of 1,694. Before her are Marie Curie (1867), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Pope John Paul II (1920), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), and Catherine the Great (1729). After her are Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), and David Ben-Gurion (1886).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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