Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)

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Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)

• Feminist leader of German Social Democratic
  party (SPD)
• Editor of the partys womens newspaper,
  Gleichheit (Equality)
• Wrote On a Bourgeois Feminist Petition (1895)
  to argue against class cooperation between
  working women and bourgeois women
• Petition examines the intersection of class and
  gender in the socialist movement

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Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)

• Leading Marxist intellectual and member of the
  German Social Democratic party (SPD)
• Theorist of revolutionary praxis (action,
  practice)
• Arch-enemy of Marxist Revisionists who
  advocated reform of capitalism and evolutionary
  change, not revolution
• Wrote Mass Strike, Party, and Trade Unions
  (1906) to theorize spontaneous revolutionary
  action in the wake of the Russian Revolution of
  1905