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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Petra Kelly, Rosa Luxemburg, Magnus Hirschfeld, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Cristina Perincioli, Shere Hite, Clara Zetkin, Heide Göttner-Abendroth, Petra Joy, Luise Kähler, Alice Schwarzer, Margarethe Lenore Selenka, Hedwig Dransfeld, Luise Aston, Louise Otto-Peters, Helene Stöcker, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Marie Juchacz, Auguste Schmidt, Hedwig Dohm, Marie Elisabeth Lüders, Dorothea Erxleben, Emma Ihrer, Elisabet Boehm, Ottilie Assing, Helke Sander, Sophie Liebknecht, Lida Gustava Heymann, Sylvia Wetzel, Gertrud Bäumer, Sabine Hark, Brigitte Riebe. Excerpt: Rosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish:; 5 March 1871, Zamosc, Vistula Land, Russia - 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was successively a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, during the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (World War I veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German far-left. Luxemburg was born to a Jewish family in Zamosc, in Russian-controlled Congress Poland. She was the fifth child of timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg and Line Löwenstein. After being bedridden with a hip ailment at the age of five, she was left with a permanent limp. On her family's moving to Warsaw, Luxemburg attended a Gymnasium from 1880. From 1886 onward, she belonged to the Polish, left-wing Proletariat party (founded in 1882, anticipating the Russ