Rosa Luxemburg's corpse
The stench of decay on the German Left, 1932--2009
IN MAY OF 2009 SCIENTISTS IN BERLIN claimed to have unearthed the corpse of the martyred revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg. Stored in the cellar of a hospital, the corpse had neither a head, nor feet, nor hands. The stump of a corpse of Rosa Luxemburg lay rotting in a basement, subjected to the un-tender mercies of modern forensic science.
Less than fourteen years after the death of one of its greatest leaders, the German Left died.
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