Luxemburg

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Today it’s been quite gray, ever since morning—for the first time. But not a trace of rain. The whole sky is covered with clouds of different sizes and different shadings and has the look of a deep, stormy sea.
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― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

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A “right of nations” which is valid for all countries and all times is nothing more than a metaphysical cliché of the type of ”rights of man” and “rights of the citizen.” Dialectic materialism, which is the basis of scientific socialism, has broken once and for all with this type of “eternal” formula. For the historical dialectic has shown that there are no “eternal” truths and that there are no “rights.” ... In the words of Engels, “What is good in the here and now, is an evil somewhere else, a
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