Karl Leibknecht, who had coaxed a reluctant Luxemburg into an uprising she knew was almost certainly doomed, had been executed a few moments before. The Spartacus Revolt was crushed. It was the birth of German fascism.
Rosa Luxemburg memorial at the site where she was thrown into the Landwehr Canal, Berlin.(Manfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons)(CC-BY-SA)
By Chris Hedges truthdig.com May 22, 2016
Chris Hedges gave this talk on revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg on Friday at the Left Forum in New York City.
On the night of Jan. 15, 1919, a group of the Freikorps—hastily formed militias made up mostly of right-wing veterans of World War I—escorted Rosa Luxemburg, a petite, 50-year-old with a slight limp, to the Eden Hotel in Berlin, the headquarters of the Guards Cavalry Rifle Division.
“Are you Frau Rosa Luxemburg?” asked Capt. Waldemar Pabst when she arrived at his…
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