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!
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of revolutionary change and the persistence of ideas over time.
Rosa Luxemburg's quote captures the relentless nature of social and political change, suggesting that revolutions are not just momentary upheavals but enduring forces that resonate through time. The phrase 'I was, I am, I shall be' signifies the enduring struggle for justice and equality, embodying the spirit of resilience and the promise of a future transformed by collective action.
In practice
During a protest, to inspire the crowd about the importance of their fight for justice.
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.
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.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
A revolution is coming β a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough β but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.
People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
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