S4E9: Rosa Luxemburg Part 1. From Warsaw to Zurich.

That’s right! Part 1! And you’d better enjoy this one, because it’s the most fun we’re gonna have on this topic! Imagine, you’re a young woman, charming, witty, a political genius with an unbridled passion for life and your fellow human beings. You make it to Switzerland, one of the only places women can study and meet the love/biggest political influence /worst pain in the arse of your life. He’s rich and good looking. Coalescing here are countless political refugees from multiple different countries, struggling to throw off the yolk of autocratic oppression, and you can switch between multiple different languages to engage with them. Something unstoppable seems to be swelling throughout Europe, an irrefutable appetite for massive change. And you have the intellectual acumen, unstoppable energy and resounding humanity that this cause will need to propel it into the twentieth century. God…can’t we just stay here?

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Sources:

Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide, Nathaniel Flakin

Red Rosa, A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Kate Evans

The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara

Rosa Luxemburg: Letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky from 1896 to 1918, Luise Kautsky, Translated: Louis P. Lochner: Marxist Internet Archive

Comrade and Lover: Rosa Luxemberg's Letters to Leo Jogiches
Elzbieta Ettinger

Love, Money, and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg
Deborah Hertz

In Our Time Podcast: Rosa Luxemburg

Online Resource Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/