Rosa Luxemburg

Question 1

What are the key ideas of Rosa Luxembourg ?

Answer 1

• evolutionary socialism and revisionism are not possible
• struggle by the proletariat for reform and democracy

Question 2

What socialist is Rosa Luxembourg ?

Answer 2

Revolutionary socialist

Question 3

What is the key work of Rosa Luxembourg?

Answer 3

The accumulation of capital

Question 4

Who ideas was she heavily influenced by ?

Answer 4

Marx and Engels

Question 5

What was Rosa Luxemburg main contribution to socialism ?

Answer 5

To modify the ideas of Karl and Marx and offer a distinctive difference to Marx

Question 6

Who was her distinctive difference of Marx practices by ? And where ?

Answer 6

Lenin and Trotsky , in communist Russia

Question 7

What did she believe was flawed ?

Answer 7

Evolutionary socialism

Question 8

Why was evolutionary socialism flawed according to Rosa Luxembourg?

Answer 8

Would leave the capitalist economic infact and impossible to reform exploitation in a capitalist society

Question 9

What other ideas was flawed to Rosa Luxemburg ?

Answer 9

Marx historical material idea

Question 10

Why was Marx historical materialism idea flawed to Rosa Luxemburg ?

Answer 10

Because capitalism did not need to reach a ‘final stage’ before it can be abolished

Question 11

Who also argued that communist revolution can happen in less economically developed societies than Marx and Engels theorised ?

Answer 11

Lenin

Question 12

What did Rosa Luxemburg argue ?

Answer 12

Communist revolution could happen in less economically developed societies than Marx and Engels theories

Question 13

What of Lenin belief did Rosa Luxemburg think was flawed ?

Answer 13

Lenin Belief in a ‘vanguard Elite’ needed to guide the population towards evolution

Question 14

What will be developed spontaneously?

Answer 14

Class consciousness

Question 15

What will be developed spontaneously ?

Answer 15

Class consciousness

Question 16

Why would class consciousness be developed spontaneously to Rosa Luxemburg ?

Answer 16

Proletariat struggle for workplace reform and democracy

Question 17

What would help to develop a revolutionary state ?

Answer 17

Mass strike action

Question 18

What did Luxemburg reject from Marx ?

Answer 18

Marx dictatorship of the proletariat

Question 19

Why did Rosa Luxemburg reject Marx Dictatorship?

Answer 19

As after revolution there should be free elections and democracy built upon common ownership

Question 20

What should there be after revolution ?

Answer 20

there should be free elections and democracy built upon common ownership

Question 21

Which of Luxemburg argument is consistent with Marx and Engels ?

Answer 21

Socialism must be internationalist rather than nationalist in nature

Question 22

Socialism should be what rather than nationalist ?

Answer 22

Internationalist

Question 23

What is internationalist ?

Answer 23

Diversed

Question 24

What is her useful quote ?

Answer 24

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of the press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies in every institution

Question 25

What her key ideas of evolutionary socialism and revisionism are not possible ?

Answer 25

Because capitalism is based on a economic relationship of exploitation

Question 26

What was her key idea of struggle by the proletariat for reform and democracy ?

Answer 26

This creates the class consciousness necessary for the overthrow of capitalist society and state