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For the Communism of Lenin, Luxemburg and Liebknecht! (Quote of the Week) This month, the International Communist League continues the communist tradition of honoring the “Three L’s”: Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin, who died in January 1924, and Marxist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were assassinated in January 1919 by the reactionary Freikorps as part of the German Social Democratic government’s suppression of the Spartakist uprising. We print below a 1930 appreciation of Rosa Luxemburg published in the Militant, newspaper of the Communist League of America, the Trotskyists at the time. From the period of her first work in Poland to the day that the Communist Party in Germany was founded by her and Karl Liebknecht, her record can be searched in vain for any compromise in principle…. It was Rosa Luxemburg who published the first appeals to the German proletariat, to the German masses, to rise against the imperialist war and the socialist bellwethers who led them to the slaughter…. Rosa Luxemburg knew how to stand and fight as a minority, even a minority of one. Especially now should this characteristic of hers be recalled, when it is as necessary and difficult to swim against the current as it was in her time…. Despite their conflicting viewpoints on many questions, said Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg was an eagle. The modern Communist movement is as inseparable from the name and work of Rosa Luxemburg as it is from the name of Lenin. For both of them the International was the fatherland. To attempt to identify either of them with one particular nation is as meaningless as to say, for instance, that Marx was a German revolutionist. Both of them were single-mindedly consecrated to the triumph of the international proletariat. Both of them were teachers and soldiers in an epoch that makes them greater than those who illuminated the pages of history in the past. Both of them were devoted to the cause that is superior to all others because its victory opens an entirely new epoch for humanity. For that they are deathless. —“Rosa Luxemburg—11 Years After,” Militant, 18 January 1930
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