History and Heartbreak: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg Vivian Gornick This article appeared in the May 2, 2011 edition of The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/article/159924/history-and-heartbreak-letters-rosa-luxemburg "..She knew instinctively that if socialists closed down inside, they'd become the kind of people who, devoid of fellow feeling, would make police-state socialism. This was Luxemburg's single most important insight--that socialists must remain empathic beings throughout their revolutionary lives. Otherwise, she asked, what kind of world would they be making? Whom would it serve? And how would human existence be bettered? This meditation never left her; in fact, as the years went on it grew in size and depth. Out of it, ultimately, comes her opposition to war, her criticism of Lenin, her analysis of why she reads Tolstoy in prison instead of Marx..." -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
