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sababausa.bsky.social
In the 1850s, Marx's critique of the East India Company included along similar lines as other left-wing contemporaries, that it only served to benefit its shareholders rather than Britain as a whole

In the 1880s, his critique of the British invasion of Egypt was that it would benefit Russia
The difficult economic environment of the last quarter of the nineteenth century coincided with and encouraged a great expansion of colonial empires. The 1880s saw the "scramble for Africa," as contemporaries put it. Later disciples of Marx, including Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Kautsky, would put imperialism at the center of their analyses of capitalism; but Marx himself: as had been the case with his writings on imperialism in the 1850s, did not perceive the connection. He lived to see the British occupation of Egypt (then an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire) in 1882, one of the first steps in the scramble for Africa. The very last written comment he made on public affairs, in a letter to Eleanor just two months before his death, concerned this imperialist move. Ignoring financial concerns, such as the money the Egyptian government owed foreign bondholders, the economic and strategic issues connected with the Suez Canal, or even visions of a great British Empire in Africa-which Marx described, sardonically, as daydreams-he focused instead on Russia. There were no British interests involved, Marx insisted: the policy of Gladstone's Liberal government was "just the tool of other, non-British clever schemers," the Russians, who wanted a British occupation of Egypt as a pretext to allow them to seize another Ottoman province, Armenia. This evaluation, shared by Engels, was part of Marx's long-term suspicion of Russian policy, and his equally long-term denunciation of the Liberal Party as a tool of the czar, but very different from future Marxists' understanding of imperialist ventures.
February 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
sababausa.bsky.social
Largely in response to economic downturns in the 1870s, European powers began aggressive colonialist tactics, including, in the 1880s, the Scramble for Africa

While later communist thinkers like Rosa Luxemburg saw colonialism as central to capitalism, Marx did not see it in those terms
February 17, 2026 at 4:06 PM
rosaluxnyc.bsky.social
During her visit to Germany, @aoc.bsky.social wanted to get to know @die-linke.de, and we at the NYC office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung were happy to facilitate a meeting with party chairwoman @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social and Berlin mayoral candidate @eliferalp.bsky.social. Photo by Olaf Krostitz
Three women stand in front of a wall decorated with a poster by mayoral candidate Elif Eralp. The women are Ines Schwerdtner, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elif Eralp.
February 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
paneradfisk.bsky.social
färgar håret så rosa ni kan kalla mig för luxemburg
February 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
rls-thueringen.bsky.social
18.02., 19 Uhr // Jena, KuBus
Lesung/Gespräch des Rosa-Luxemburg-Clubs Jena:
Femizide in Deutschland
Mit Julia Cruschwitz (Autorin)
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February 17, 2026 at 1:09 PM
karldietzberlin.bsky.social
„Aussichten: Leichter Schneefall, im Norden Dauerfrost.“ Geht nicht raus ohne Schal. Als politisches Statement, das auf Beige-Grau-Ödnis pfeift: dietzberlin.de/fanschal-ros... #rosaluxemburg
Martin (Beck, leitet Dietz Berlin) steht in seinem Büro und zeigt den Rosa Luxemburg-Fanschal in epischer Breite. Farbpalette: Rot, Pink, Violett, Dunkelblau
February 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM
aricake.eu
It’s weirdly American to do that. Like, today I was at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, for instance.

But it is notable how in Americ, as soon as something becomes “just” it is never “left.” The instant “slavery bad” became mainstream, it stopped being a part of the left/right system
February 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
jadehaze.bsky.social
Oh one of those bands. For me it was The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg. Although I think they released two. Cause there is one online but it’s not the one I remember.
February 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
kokujinkun.bsky.social
Explain this?
Unlike the modern Labour left, the KPD’s antipathy to their centre-left rivals derived in part from memories of a recent crime against them. In January 1919, after Germany’s defeat in the First World War and the fall of the Kaiser, the new Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Friedrich Ebert used the far-right Freikorps militias to help suppress the Spartacist uprising, led by KPD founders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. In the process, Freikorps men tortured and murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht.
February 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
kokujinkun.bsky.social
Explain this
Unlike the modern Labour left, the KPD’s antipathy to their centre-left rivals derived in part from memories of a recent crime against them. In January 1919, after Germany’s defeat in the First World War and the fall of the Kaiser, the new Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Friedrich Ebert used the far-right Freikorps militias to help suppress the Spartacist uprising, led by KPD founders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. In the process, Freikorps men tortured and murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht.
February 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
xtrakik.bsky.social
„Schauen Sie sich nur mal an, auf wie vielen Verschwörungskanälen Hannah-Arendt-Zitate stehen? Wie oft wird mit Kafka argumentiert oder mit Rosa Luxemburg, „Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“. So etwas nehmen die auf wie ein Staubsauger, semantical reloading nennt man das in der Wissenschaft.“
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
sossupummit.bsky.social
Daniela Klette’s Greeting to the 31st Rosa Luxemburg Conference


https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/28226/
Daniela Klette’s Greeting to the 31st Rosa Luxemburg Conference
The alleged former RAF militant Daniela Klette sent a greeting from pretrial detention to the 31st International Rosa Luxemburg Conference on January 10, 2026, which
abolitionmedia.noblogs.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
esunaproxy.bsky.social
Rosa Luxemburg:
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM
feshistory.bsky.social
Unsere neue Publikation ist online! "Fragile Akten?" beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen digitaler Überlieferungsbildung und Fragen der Faktizität. Mit dabei sind u.a. Bärbel Förster (🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Ewald Grothe (@fnfreiheit.bsky.social) und Malte Thießen
February 16, 2026 at 10:11 AM
karldietzberlin.bsky.social
… Übersetzer von »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« / Sabine Nuss & Ingo Stützle zu »Der verdrängte Kapitalismus« // Sa 21.03. christopher wimmer zu Rätebewegungen mit »Alles muss man selber machen«. Kommt zu uns + 🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung – wir freuen uns auf euch!! /2
February 16, 2026 at 7:46 AM
thomaskonig.bsky.social
There’s an allegory in Germany in the late 1920s and early 30s. The anarchists, communists and socialists attempted to ally with the SPD, the social democrats, to push for severe reform in the Weimar Republic. The SPD, finding them too radical, executed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 AM
mondoab.bsky.social
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"We are not fighting for the distribution of wealth, but for the destruction of the very categories of 'rich' and 'poor' that define the human condition under capital." — cited as Rosa Luxemburg, 'Resistance and Decolonization, 1970s', IMPOSSIBLE ATTRIBUTION, Luxemburg was killed in 1919
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
fivek.bsky.social
Give me one real life example of someone holding a sign at a protest that says something like "Black Lives Matter" or "Protect Trans Kids" who ended up like Rosa Luxemburg and I'll reconsider if it's the dumbest thing in the world to cut off the heads or blur the faces of protesters
fivek.bsky.social i'm nobody, who are you? @fivek.bsky.social · 2d
Every time I make a post mocking NPIC security culture I catch like 5 blocks and I love that so much, real snowflake energy
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
krausebambo.bsky.social
:)
Bücherwand mit Rosa-Luxemburg-Gemälde.
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
sossupummit.bsky.social
Daniela Klette’s Greeting to the 31st Rosa Luxemburg Conference


https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/28226/
Daniela Klette’s Greeting to the 31st Rosa Luxemburg Conference
The alleged former RAF militant Daniela Klette sent a greeting from pretrial detention to the 31st International Rosa Luxemburg Conference on January 10, 2026, which
abolitionmedia.noblogs.org
February 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
leftistquotes.bsky.social
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom
Quote card: "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918).
February 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
rinewithoutacat.bsky.social
Proof I leave the house!

Slouchy evening yesterday after a little gym PR push, wearing a custom @allgrim.bsky.social Rosa Luxemburg sweatshirt, photo by the wonderful @gersande.com, bookstore is the illustrious @argobookshop.bsky.social.
A white person in a beanie and a black mask leans against a wall of books. They are wearing a reddish sweatshirt with a silver rose visible.
February 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
nop-i.bsky.social
En 33,le KPD était séparé du SPD parce que le SPD avait fait assassiner ses membres, dont Rosa Luxemburg, même pas dix ans avant.

Faut arrêter de dire de la merde.
February 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
broadbent.bsky.social
Ellen Meiksins Wood: "Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature."

Join us for the 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture @arts-tmu.bsky.social w Rosa Luxemburg NYC on Wed. Apr. 22. — Lecturer TBA at 2026 Progress Summit. Stay tuned!

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2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture poster. A woman speaking into a microphone, wearing glasses. Toronto Metropolitan University and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office logos appear next to the event date "Wednesday, April 22".
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM