Rosa Luxemburg died on 15 January 1919 in Berlin, aged 47. A Polish-born Marxist theorist and revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg became a leading figure of the German left. She wrote influential works such as Reform or Revolution and The Accumulation of Capital, and she argued for mass action by workers while criticizing both reformist socialists and what she saw as the authoritarian tendencies of Lenin's party. Opposed to the First World War, she was imprisoned for much of it and helped found the Spartacus League and later the Communist Party of Germany. During the unrest of January 1919 she was arrested in Berlin and murdered by Freikorps soldiers. She remains a symbol of principled socialism and of democratic dissent on the left.
Before and after
- from 5 January 1919 to 12 January 1919Spartacist uprising
- 6 January 1919Death of Theodore Roosevelt
- 14 January 1919Birth of Giulio Andreotti
- 15 January 1919Great Molasses Flood
- 15 January 1919Death of Rosa Luxemburg
- from 21 January 1919 to 11 July 1921Irish War of Independence
- from 23 January 1919 to 30 January 1919Polish–Czechoslovak War
- from February 1919 to March 1921Polish–Soviet War
- from 6 February 1919 to 11 February 1919Seattle General Strike
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