GermanyRosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born German Marxist theorist and revolutionary who co-founded the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany. She wrote Reform or Revolution and was murdered by Freikorps soldiers after the 1919 Spartacist uprising.
In the 12 Axes register, Rosa Luxemburg leans hardest on Collectivize – Privatize: Collectivize 95%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Rosa Luxemburg sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Unitary
Wanted Polish autonomy within a revolutionized Russian state, not independence
Direct Democracy
Argued socialism needs democracy and freedom for dissenters
Libertarian
Defended press freedom: 'freedom for the one who thinks differently'
Internationalism
Rejected nationalism and urged international worker solidarity
Pacifist
Opposed World War I; imprisoned for most of the war
Multiculturalist
Opposed national self-determination in favor of class unity
Communist
Called for common ownership of the means of production
Planned Economy
Rejected capitalist markets for a planned socialist economy
Free Trade
Analyzed imperialism and world markets in The Accumulation of Capital
Atheist
Attacked the clergy in 'Socialism and the Churches' (1905)
Revolutionary
Revolutionary Marxist who sought overthrow of capitalism
Neutral
No distinct position on technology
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Collectivize – Privatize
On Collectivize – Privatize, Rosa Luxemburg is at Collectivize 95%. The register median is balanced 50%.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Rosa Luxemburg is at Unitary 68%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.marxists.org
Portrait: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
