Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-German Marxist theorist, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist. She was a major figure in the German socialist movement and co-founded the Spartacus League, which later helped form the Communist Party of Germany.

She was murdered in Berlin on January 15, 1919, during the violent suppression of the Spartacist uprising.

Big picture: she was one of the major anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist thinkers of the early 20th century—sharp as hell, uncompromising, and very much not the “please clap” kind of socialist.

Why does she look like a distant relative of Kirk