Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of a party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all.
Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Not because of the fanaticism of "justice", but rather because all that is instructive, wholesome, and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effects cease to work when "freedom" becomes a privilege.
Rosa Luxemburg was murderd in Berlin in January 1919 and her body thrown into the Landwehr Canal.
She wrote these words on the evening before her death:
"Order prevails in Berlin!" You foolish lackeys! Your "order" is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will "rise up again, clashing its weapons," and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!
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