The legacy of Rosa Luxembourg?

[butchersapron]

Don't know where to put this, but I'll stick it here:
http://www.historicalmaterialism.or...wards-and-the-origins-of-the-council-movement

Looks very interesting

Yes it does.

 

[articul8]

^ nice work, ta.

 

[brogdale]

*Bump*...simply because next Tuesday marks the centenary anniversary of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht.

When we last visited Berlin, in 2017, we went out to Lichtenberg specifically to see the memorials in the Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten (the Memorial to the Socialists) at the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. I took this pic of Rosa's memorial plaque/grave(?).

 

[brogdale]

The Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten centrepiece and setting for Luxemburg & Liebknecht's graves:



Until it was demolished by the Nazis in 1935, this section of the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde had been dominated by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's imposing, 'brutalist'/modernist Revolution monument:



The history of the building, destruction and proposed recreation of the monument is covered in this wiki link.

If you walk further into the Zentralfriedhof you can find a plaque commemorating the monument:

 

[brogdale]

Looking through my Berlin pics I was reminded that Rosa featured in the 'cabinet of heads' welcoming you into the entry foyer of the rather splendid Museum of 'Everyday life in the GDR' in der Kulturbraurei in Pankow:

 

[brogdale]

For any Urbz going to Berlin before May 19th, the charming little Märkisches Museum (on the left bank of the Spree, SE of the museum island & S of Alex...the museum by the bear pit!) is holding what looks like an interesting centenary exhibition on the November revolution:

Berlin 18/19

 

[petee]