WHAT DOES A GOVERNMENT WITHOUT DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE? 28 Rosa Luxemburg (communist revolutionary)
Democracy’s main rival as a system of government emerged in the early twentieth century in the form of communist regimes in China, Cuba and the Soviet Union. Under communism, governments took all private property into public ownership with the supposed intention of distributing wealth and ending inequality. In almost all cases, communist governments tended towards authoritarian dictatorships. In Germany, however, a woman named Rosa Luxemburg argued for a form of communist revolution that would be democratic. In 1919, Luxemburg was interrogated and executed during an attempted uprising in Berlin.
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