luxemburg #6

    Rossy Jerez                                                                    Due 3/15/14

          Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)

            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.

            The reason that I chose this paragraph because it's explain how after and during a war there isn't any change made politically to help the working class that is the (proletarian class). What change is the struggle that the proletarian undergo because of the spread of power in which what the volcano of imperialisms represents. Struggle is all a work of life that consist of the middle of the war and post war too