Luxemburg, released from prison in November 1918 once the German Revolution was underway, writes several keys works mostly in Die Rote Fahne, (Red Flag), the Spartacus League publication. "What Does the Spartacus League Want?" (The Reader) is a document that articulates the workers' demands rather than request from the Ebert-Scheidemann regime anything that it cannot and will not grant.
On November 9, workers and soldiers smashed the old German regime. The Prussian saber's mania of world rule had bled to death on the battlefields of France. The gang of criminals who sparked a worldwide conflagration and drove Germany into an ocean of blood had come to the end of its rope. The people--betrayed for four years, having forgotten culture, honesty, and humanity in the service of the Moloch, available for every obscene deed--awoke from its four-year-long paralysis, only to face the abyss.
On November 9, the German proletariat rose up to throw off the shameful yoke. The Hohenzollerns were driven out; workers' and soldiers' councils were elected. But the Hohenzollerns were no more than the front men of the imperialist bourgeoisie and of the Junkers. The class rule of the bourgeoisie is the real criminal responsible for the World War, in Germany, as in France, in Russia as in England, in Europe as in America. The capitalists of all nations are the real instigators of the mass murder. International capital is the insatiable god Baal, into whose bloody maw millions upon millions of steaming human sacrifices are thrown. ("What Does the Spartacus League Want?")
What do the people wants?
Disarmament of the entire police force and of all officers and nonproletarian soldier; disarmament of all members of the ruling classes"
Abolition of all principalities; establishment of a united German Socialist Republic"
Elimination of all parliaments and municipal councils, and takeover of their functions by workers' and soldiers' councils and of the latter's committees and organs"
Confiscation of all dynastic wealth and income for the collectivity"
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