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GO One of the most famous Polish women recognised around the world and one of the most important politicians of the 20th century used to live in the district of Jeżyce. Up to this day she is commemorated by a plaque on the wall of a tenement house at 21 Szamarzewskiego Street, which still causes heated disputes.
Back then engagement in politics required a lot of effort – in particular, it required organisational work at a local level. Rosa Luxemburg made contact with Poznań activists from the Polish Socialist Party in the Prussian Partition. Despite the ideological differences, she was trying to use it in the execution of her plans.
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She visited Poznań several times. We know for sure that she stayed in the district of Jeżyce during her longest visit in May 1903. The flat at today’s Szamarzewskiego Street was her “base camp” which
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At the turn of the 20th century, socialists in the Wielkopolska Region did not receive much support. Nevertheless, they remained active. Workers’ demands were intertwined with resistance against Germanisation as well as with striving for independence. On the other hand, a new political movement emerged on the Left, which valued real equality over political sovereignty. This was the group in which Rosa Luxemburg was active.
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Rosa Luxemburg was working hard to fight for a place for herself and other women in the male-dominated world. She received excellent education and confidently engaged in intellectual disputes with the leading political thinkers of the era. She was born in Zamość into a Jewish family. Hence her sensitivity to unjust treatment of minority groups. She advocated respect for national autonomy, even though as a socialist she thought that the future of the world lied in voluntary transnational structures.
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