She was murdered on this day in 1919. As she fell so did the communists in Germany. With their downfall there was nothing to stop the Nazi take over of Germany.
In another world, the German communists seized power during the uprising. Being the most advanced industrial nation at the time, had they succeeded and allied with the USSR we could very well be living in a radically different and better world.
Friedrich Engels once said: ‘Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.’ … Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. … Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery. Or the victory of socialism, that means the conscious active struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism and its method of war