History is often told through the lives of a few great thinkers—most of them men. Yet, countless women have shaped political, social, philosophical and cultural thought while remaining at the margins of collective memory, only to be largely forgotten. Rosa Luxemburg is one of them: a thinker whose legacy still challenges us to reconsider who we choose to remember, and who gets left in the footnotes
History is often told through the lives of a few great thinkers—most of them men. Yet, countless women have shaped political, social, philosophical and cultural thought while remaining at the margins of collective memory, only to be largely forgotten. Rosa Luxemburg is one of them: a thinker whose legacy still challenges us to reconsider who we choose to remember, and who gets left in the footnotes For years, I…