Saturday, March 21, 2015

Rosa Luxemburg's "What does the Spartacus League Want"

"And because that is what it wants, because it is the voice of warning, of urgency, because it is the socialist conscience of the Revolution, it is hated, persecuted, and defamed by all the open and secret enemies of the Revolution and the proletariat.
Crucify it! shout the capitalists, trembling for their cashboxes.
Crucify it! shout the petty bourgeois, the officers, the anti-Semites, the press lackeys of the bourgeoisie, trembling for their fieshpots under the class rule of the bourgeoisie.
Crucify it! shout the Scheidemanns, who, like Judas Iscariot, have sold the workers to the bourgeoisie and tremble for their pieces of silver.
Crucify it! repeat like an echo the deceived, betrayed, abused strata of the working class and the soldiers who do not know that, by raging against the Spartacus League, they rage against their own flesh and blood."

Since Germany was basically controlled by the bourgeois class, the upper and middle class causing a lot of unfair things for the working class on top of what they had to go through during the crisis and wars The Spartacus League was sort of invented, this league was the popular league, the league of the people, it spoke for everyone who did not have a voice, I like how in this passage the author uses religion to make a statement. Just like Jesus who was good was crucify by the bad they too were shouting to be crucify by the capitalist system, by the rich, by everyone. Even though it is fair and just what the Spartacus league asks for it still gets the shorter end of the stick.  

No comments:

Post a Comment