Rosa Luxemburg Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Democracy, Socialism

• The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Leadership, Determination, Destiny

• Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Blood, Democracy, Pieces

• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

• The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Self, Class, Roots

  "Revolutionary Socialist Organization". Book by Rosa Luxemburg, www.marxists.org. 1934.

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