An Investigation of the Differences between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin on the Organizational Principles of the Proletarian Party

Abstract

Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin were both prominent proletarian revolutionaries and theoreticians of the Second International, and both participated in the creation of proletarian parties and led the European workers' movement as key leaders of the Social Democratic Party, inheriting and developing Marxist theory in revolutionary practice. The difference was that they were in different revolutionary environments in the East and West, which led to different differences in their understanding and application of Marx's theory of proletarian revolution, especially on the issue of the organisational principles of proletarian parties.