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Rosa Luxemburg (1870 - 1919) was a socialist politician, an advocate of social revolution and head of the Spartakusbund (together with Karl Liebknecht). She wrote "die Akkumulation des Kapitals" (1913) and "Das Kommunistische Manifest" in 1918. She was arrested and murdered by Freikorpstroups in Berlin in 1919.