Assignment 7 The German Revolution of 1918-1919

Assignment 7 The German Revolution of 1918-1919

“The world war today is demonstrably not only murder on a grand scale; it is also suicide of the working classes of Europe. The soldiers of socialism, the proletarians of England, France, Germany, Russia, and Belgium have for months been killing one another at the behest of capital”

            The passage above means that the World War (the first one) is only destroying the “Proletarians” (or the working class). It does not matter who win or loses the war, the real losers are the working class. The author Rosa Luxemburg goes on to explain that it is just the not proletarian of Germany that are losing, but all the Proletarian form all the countries are losing and the winner of the war are the bourgeoisie (the rich class or the class with power). The author blames that money, capital and imperialist values for the bourgeoisies are what the World War came to be, and the defense of the people of the each country as they expressed.

                The reason that I choose this passage is because this states the main point of the author. The author starts of with blaming the SPD (Social Democratic Party) for the reason Germany was able to engage in the world war. Then the author explains how the SPD had betrayed the working class, because they were supposed to be standing representing the working class. But instead they kept the working class in the dark, by not telling the real situation and voting for the war credit and persuaded the working class that they are being attacked and they must defend their father land.

                One thing that surprised me was that Marx had prophesized about the world War and event with that prophesize the working class was not able to doge the bullet. Another thing that surprise is that in essence they all knew that there would be a world war because they had been building their armies and navy and they the (both sides) did not do anything major to stop the war or restrict the built up of the armies and navy, so that there would not be such a loose of human life.