Rosa Luxemburg

She was born on March 5, 1871, Zamosc, Poland, Russian Empire and she was murdered on Jan. 15, 1919, Berlin, Germany during the Spartacus Revolt. She was active leader of internationalist socialist movement and was the member of Polish Communist Party.The Russian Revolution of 1905 convinced her that the world revolution would orginate in Russia. But she was in ideological friction with Lenin at the time of october revolution in 1917 in Russia. She believed in a democratic path to socialism after a world revolution to overthrow capitalism and opposed to the way what she tagged as Lenin's dictatorship. But however continued to believe in dictatorship of the proletriat which she believed to be different from that of Bolshevik's dictatorship. Her popular quote during friction with Lenin was:

"Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc .."