„Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it.“

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— Rosa Luxemburg

The Junius Pamphlet http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1915/junius/index.htm (1915)
Contesto: Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

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