Last ep of Season 4 Everyone!
Yeah it’s long…she was a big deal!
Part two sees us follow Rosa to Berlin from Zurich, with her doctorate in hand and a fig leaf marriage for a German passport. The partnership with Leo Jogiches has become long distance (rocky) and she’s flourishing out on her own, developing long lasting and important friendships with the likes of Clara Zetkin and Karl Kautsky. Rosa Luxemburg’s dreams for the working class are big and bold and beautiful, recognising the decimation of human dignity that industrialised capitalism and militarism have unleashed. Rosa meets a devastating and violent end in January 1919, but her legacy and writings are vindicated with every fresh global crisis.
Meanwhile the SPD party of Germany won’t stop growing, and there will be big bureaucratic changes and opportunities for the politically ambitious.
…also an oddly prescient rant about the demise of the Starmer premiership of the UK at the time of recording, early summer 2026, but look sorry not sorry, been carrying this around for a while.
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Sources:
Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide, Nathaniel Flakin
Red Rosa, A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Kate Evans
The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara
Rosa Luxemburg: Letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky from 1896 to 1918, Luise Kautsky, Translated: Louis P. Lochner: Marxist Internet Archive
Comrade and Lover: Rosa Luxemberg's Letters to Leo Jogiches
Elzbieta Ettinger
Love, Money, and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg
Deborah Hertz
In Our Time Podcast: Rosa Luxemburg
Online Resource Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/
