| Abstract: | Rosa Luxemburg, who occupied a central position in both the German and the international communist movement prior to and during World War I, addressed the issue of party proletariat relationships in her writings. Luxemberg-a devoted Marxist-believed in the scientific validity of Marxism. To her, a revolutionary and class conscious proletariat was a world-wide reality, whose ultimate victory was certain. Luxemburg agreed that the party was to lead the proletariat, and was not to wait for revolutionary action by the proletariat. In order for the party to perform its role effectively required intraparty discipline, which would not tolerate deviations such as Eduard Bernstein's revisionism. Luxemburg's model of a revolutionary Marxist party, in its theoretical justification, was not different from the Bolshevik model developed by Vladimir Lenin. |
