Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
Interpretation
Legal reform is influenced by the social structures established by previous revolutions.
Rosa Luxemburg's quote highlights the idea that any effort towards legal reform must operate within and be informed by the social context and frameworks that have been established by prior revolutionary changes. It suggests that societal structures profoundly shape the avenues and possibilities for reform, indicating that without understanding the past revolutions, one cannot effectively engage in the pursuit of legal changes.
In practice
In a speech about the necessity of understanding our history when pushing for new laws.
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.
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.
I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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