Tag: communism

Remembering Polish-born revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, 150 years after her birth

Mar 25, 2021

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Krystian Schneyder

in Poland

OPINION Rosa Luxemburg was born on the 5 March 1871 in the Polish town of Zamość, as Rozalia Luksenburg. She was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), before splitting from the latter to help establish the Communist Party of…
Examining the oppression of Polish socialism offers answers to Poland’s socio-economic woes

Feb 27, 2021

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by

Krystian Schneyder

in Poland

OPINION Socialism and the struggle for self-determination in Poland always went hand in hand. However, every time the country regained its autonomy it ended up rejecting democratic and egalitarian ideals. This was the case after Poland gained its independence in 1918, following over a century of foreign rule. In the nineteenth century socialist activists, including Józef…