Proletariat

In this quote Luxemburg meant that the modern proletariat is an outcome of the change of the old proletariat that has been transformed over the years. For instance the proletariat before world war one was different from the one after the war. In that sense the revolution came after the lost of the war by Germans and did not exist before. Therefore, proletarians found themselves fighting against militarism and war. The author also mentioned that the proletariat goals and errors are difficult to accomplish and overcome because there is no logic to be followed. Every case in each political time is different and no leader was able to have an appropriate plan to solve definitely proletarians’ problems. However, proletarians can only learn from their mistakes. This way of learning is not the best one because it is full of pain and suffering.

Luxemburg’s criticism of modern capitalism and world war one relate to nihilism as follow: the SPD’s actions during and after the war chocked a lot of people because its vote for the war was unexpected. From this turning point people did not know who trust anymore. Therefore, Nihilism has a reason to think that our world is not a better place to live. In the same idea Luxemburg and Karl decided to go against the SPD because once you lost trust of an organization you have to separate yourself from that group and that why those two leaders went for the communism party.

Moreover, Luxemburg believed that only the military industrial benefits from the war and the crisis created a break with the past. She said that because there was no war in the past and people were more focused on class equality and civil liberty. However, with the war Germans had to not only survive from the war and also fight against the exploitation imposed by the capitalism. In addition, the collapse of the authority and the uncertainty helped nihilists to believe that its time for them to escape from our world.