Assignment 3/21

Assignment (Due 3/21 ): Please choose a passage from one of Luxemburg's essays. Write out the passage. Explain the meaning of the passage and how it relates to politics today.

One thing is certain. The world war is a turning point. It is foolish and mad to imagine that we need only survive the war, like a rabbit waiting out the storm under a bush, in order to fall happily back into the old routine once it is over. The world war has altered the conditions of our struggle and, most of all, it has changed us. Not that the basic law of capitalist development, the life-and-death war between capital and labor, will experience any amelioration. But now, in the midst of the war, the masks are falling and the old familiar visages smirk at us. The tempo of development has received a mighty jolt from the eruption of the volcano of imperialism. The violence of the conflicts in the bosom of society, the enormousness of the tasks that tower up before the socialist proletariat – these make everything that has transpired in the history of the workers’ movement seem a pleasant idyll.

I think that this passage reflects what's going on in the world with all the wars that are happening right now. Many countries are in war with each other especially because they are fighting for power and wealth. However, every country defends their interest and their beliefs of what political system is the right one and which one is wrong one. However, what triggers a war between countries is need to obtain power. Many parts of the world are living in a total chaos because a war is not only between the governments but also between all the people who gets affected by the consequences of the war. This passage also points out that it is not only during war that people suffers but as well after it ends because it alters their living conditions