Answer the questions for the reading R. Luxemburg’s pamphlet The Workers and the War of 1916 (document attached) 1. What according to Rosa Luxemburg were the consequences of European Social Democrats failure to block their nations governments going to war in 1914? 2. What does she see as the likely outcome of a German victory in the World War on the one hand, or an Anglo-French victory on the other? 3. Why does Rosa Luxemburg deny the theory then current in Germany that a German victory in the World War would lead to great economic expansion as was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870? 4. How according to Luxemburg was the war that erupted in 1914 essentially an imperialist war?
