The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
Interpretation
The constitution arises from revolutionary change, reflecting society's political evolution.
Rosa Luxemburg emphasizes that the constitution is a result of revolutionary transformations within a society, representing not just the laws of governance but the ongoing political growth and development of that society. She highlights the dynamic relationship between revolutionary action and constitutional legislation, suggesting that the constitution is influenced by the historical struggles and classes that shape its existence.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of social movements, one could reference this quote to illustrate the link between revolution and legal frameworks.
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.
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