Liebknecht

"Liebknecht," I said at last, "is one of the great figures of the war.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

With the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Liebknecht the split of the European Left into Socialist and Communist became irrevocable; ‘the abyss which the Communists pictured in theory had become … the abyss of the grave.’

Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009

These brutal murders [of Luxemburg and Liebknecht] inflicted a wound upon the German working class movement from which it did not recover.

Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009

It is not only their complicity with the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, but also their support of the Kaiser in WW1.

Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009

Near 4 P.M., still haranguing his crowd in Berlin, Liebknecht shouted, The day of liberty has dawned!

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

As Scheidemann went out to the balcony, he was told that Karl Liebknecht, a more radical socialist leader, was speaking right then to another crowd from another balcony not far away.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

Two hours late and several crowds short, however, the insurrection never had much of a chance, and a couple of months later, their revolution stalled, Liebknecht and his colleague Rosa Luxemburg would be killed by right-wing militias in a government-sponsored crackdown against radicalism.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

We'll struggle to find these points of definition in the works of Michelet, Liebknecht, Plekhanov or Marx.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Only a few blocks from where we sit this morning, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were seized, brutally beaten, tortured, interrogated and murdered by the Freikorps.

Balkinization 2006

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht and a group of other Jews took over the government for three days.

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