My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay..
— Cartas a Karl y Luise Kautsky
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Where this quote comes from
Rosa Luxemburg wrote this in her 1918 essay The Russian Revolution, a critique of the Bolsheviks written by a fellow revolutionary. She argues that freedom only for supporters of the government, or for members of one party, is no freedom at all. Political freedom loses its value, she says, the moment it becomes a special privilege.
Source: The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter 6, "The Problem of Dictatorship"
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