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      Our Heritage - Rosa Luxemburg

      Revolutionary Marxist Leader (1871-1919)

      Excerpt from her writings "Peace Utopia” (1911)

      Certainly not merely in the fact that the bourgeois apostles of peace are relying on the influence of fine words, while we do not depend on words alone. Our very points of departure are diametrically opposed: the friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the framework of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state.



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