Luxemburg's Essay Passage

"From dead machines assigned their place in production by capital, the proletarian masses must learn to transform themselves into the free and independent directors of this process. They have to acquire the feeling of responsibility proper to active members of the collectively which alone possesses ownership of all social wealth. They have to develop industriousness without the capitalist whip, the highest productivity without slave drivers, discipline without the yoke, and order without authority. The highest idealism in the interest of the collectivity, the strictest self-discipline the truest public spirit, just as stupidity, egotism and eruption are the moral foundation of capitalist society." Rosa Luxemburg, "What does the Spartacus League want?"

 

I think in this passage, Luxemburg stresses the proletarian masses to transform in a new order or into free and independent directors to achieve socialist society which would be favorable for German people. She mentions that capitalist main purpose is to get profit as much as possible making the workers as slaves and even making them skill less and jobless by replacing workers with machines for mass production. So she reminds the main goal of revolution to change the capitalist society and create a socialist society where every people get equal opportunity and freedom to live a good life and also tells the proletarian masses to follow the new order which would be beneficial for German people.

 

I agree with Rosa Luxemburg and the negativity of the capitalist society which we are also facing today in our life. The capitalism has forced people to work in a very low wages, cuts in benefits, and many being jobless as the work have been shifted to foreign countries to make more profit. So the rich people are getting richer and poor people in our country are getting poorer day by day and many people are being homeless because they loss their jobs, they could not afford to pay the rent and so on. So there must be done something to make the change which would relieve the burden from working class who have been in pressure throughout their whole life and uplift them from the poverty.

 

References:

Luxemburg, Rosa. Rosa Luxemburg: What Does the Spartacus League Want?. Ed. Martin Nicolaus. Marxists Internet Archive , 14 Dec. 1918. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. < http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/12/14.htm>.