A wise, thoughtful presentation on the life and philosophy of a great human being, Rosa Luxemburg. Peter Hudis does a magnificent job summarizing and cogently explaining complicated ideological notions and I'm looking forward to reading his book.
We have the same issue in Britain: we acknowledge Emmeline Pankhurst who campaigned for women to get the vote (middle-class, property owning women, not *all* women) but her daughter Sylvia, who was much further to the left, is virtually unknown. If you don't have the 'correct' ideas you are quietly forgotten from history.
Part of the global dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is to repress - especially by omission - any revolutionary characteristics of important historical figures. Often they'll do that by whitewashing those aspects from well known individuals (Einstein, MLK, Helen Keller, etc.) but for those who were so committed to the cause that they cannot be whitewashed they are either thoroughly demonized or omitted from the conversation altogether. Rosa's character, work, and martyrdom are beyond reproach (though she was not a perfect person by any means) so she "somehow" doesn't make her way onto history's role call by the powers that be.
15:57-17:17 It was not new, Marx already said that one way to overcome capitalist crisis is expansion of markets. But unfortunately at that time many people in the second International weren't Marxists anymore.
Great Work and clean production values. As for the source of freedom, I would argue that humanism, JS Mill and Hume, Humboldt and enlightenment humanist theory are to be most recognised. Luxemburg's Focus on democracy and humanism from within a Marxist framework makes her among the most palatable socialists in history
