Rosa Luxemburg's fatal error -- loyalty to her friends

Rosa Luxemburg was a leader of the German communists until she was murdered by German nationalists following the failed communist Spartacist uprising of 1918-1919 in Germany, just at the end, and just following WWI. This was essentially a spontaneous uprising of the German people and the German military in response to the deprivations and failures caused by the First World War, although it was certainly encouraged and fostered by the German left, and some financing was available to Rosa Luxemburg and other communist leaders from the newly founded Soviet Union led by Vladimir Lenin. This was not a coup ordered by the USSR, although Lenin and Trotsky certainly did favor World Revolution as the ultimate goal of the communist internationale, as a matter of fundamental principle. Rosa Luxemburg argued against the Spartacist uprising, believing the time had not yet come for a worker's revolution in Germany, and that it must inevitably fail. The Spartacist uprising had little to do with Germany's capitulation, which was actually inevitable within a few days or weeks anyway, they no longer were militarily capable of opposing the advance of the Allies, who had become much too strong for Germany by the end of 1918. Once the uprising was underway, Rosa Luxemburg decided she must join with the revolting workers, out of solidarity, and loyalty to her friends. This was a literally fatal, and a disastrous decision on her part, that had catastrophic consequences for the world as a whole. It had particularly disastrous consequences for Jews internationally, because Rosa Luxemburg was Jewish, as were many members of the leadership of the German left, and, of course, of the Soviet Union, like Leon Trotsky. Because of this incredible and totally unnecessary error, Rosa Luxemburg died a martyr's death, and Jews as a whole were blamed for the attempt to force Bolshevism on the people of Germany. This was precisely what turned Adolf Hitler and Germans into rabid antisemites. Hitler actually hadn't been particularly antisemitic at all until the Spartacist uprising, nor had the people of Germany. By this simple and extremely unfortunate act of loyalty, Rosa Luxemburg personally formed the basis for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, bringing about WWII, and the Jewish Holocaust. Indeed, to this very day, extreme right-wing American supporters of Donald Trump -- who obviously themselves have antisemitic, fascist leanings -- will cite Rosa Luxemburg as proving that Jews tried to force Germany to become an authoritarian Bolshevist state! In fact, Rosa Luxemburg was very much opposed to Bolshevist authoritarianism, and, if she hadn't been murdered, might have helped to steer German leftists to a democratic course. She was basically a gentle pacifist, and a socialist idealist. #wwi #history #antisemitism #hitler #sparticists #communism #germany #fascism #wwii #philosophyofhistory #geopolitics #ussr #trump #donaldtrump